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Monday-morning quarterbacked

Monday-morning quarterbacked is the simple past and past participle of Monday-morning quarterback.

Meaning of Monday-morning quarterback

Verb

Monday-morning quarterback (third-person singular simple present Monday-morning quarterbacks, present participle Monday-morning quarterbacking, simple past and past participle Monday-morning quarterbacked)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To criticize with hindsight.
    • Before any show, we "Monday-morning quarterback" the last show. Each man points out his partners' errors, then has to listen to his own.1958 January, Jacksel M. Broughton, “I Led the Thunderbirds”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 109, number 1

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Questions about Monday-morning quarterbacked

What is Monday-morning quarterbacked the simple past and past participle of?
Monday-morning quarterbacked is the simple past and past participle of Monday-morning quarterback.

Words near Monday-morning quarterbacked in the dictionary

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  3. Monday morning quarterbacks
  4. Monday-morning
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  6. Monday-morning quarterbacked
  7. Monday-morning quarterbacking
  8. Monday-morning quarterbacks
  9. Mondayisation
  10. Mondayise
  11. Mondayised

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