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back-seat drove

back-seat drove is the simple past of back-seat drive.

Meaning of back-seat drive

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.

Questions about back-seat drove

What is back-seat drove the simple past of?
Back-seat drove is the simple past of back-seat drive.

Words near back-seat drove in the dictionary

  1. back-seat driven
  2. back-seat driver
  3. back-seat drivers
  4. back-seat drives
  5. back-seat driving
  6. back-seat drove
  7. back-seat game
  8. back-seat gamed
  9. back-seat gamer
  10. back-seat gamers
  11. back-seat games

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