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back-seat drive

back-seat drive verb: to engage in the habit or practice of back-seat driving.

Verb

back-seat drive (third-person singular simple present back-seat drives, present participle back-seat driving, simple past back-seat drove, past participle back-seat driven)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in the habit or practice of back-seat driving.

Forms of back-seat drive

third-person singular presentback-seat drives
present participleback-seat driving
pastback-seat drove
past participleback-seat driven

Questions about back-seat drive

What does back-seat drive mean?
Back-seat drive means to engage in the habit or practice of back-seat driving.
What part of speech is back-seat drive?
Back-seat drive is a verb.
What is the past tense of back-seat drive?
The past tense of back-seat drive is back-seat drove.

Words near back-seat drive in the dictionary

  1. back-scatter
  2. back-scattered
  3. back-scattering
  4. back-scatters
  5. back-seat
  6. back-seat drive
  7. back-seat driven
  8. back-seat driver
  9. back-seat drivers
  10. back-seat drives
  11. back-seat driving

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