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Monday-morning quarterbacking

Monday-morning quarterbacking is the present participle and gerund 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 quarterbacking

What is Monday-morning quarterbacking the present participle and gerund of?
Monday-morning quarterbacking is the present participle and gerund of Monday-morning quarterback.

Words near Monday-morning quarterbacking in the dictionary

  1. Monday morning quarterback
  2. Monday morning quarterbacks
  3. Monday-morning
  4. Monday-morning quarterback
  5. Monday-morning quarterbacked
  6. Monday-morning quarterbacking
  7. Monday-morning quarterbacks
  8. Mondayisation
  9. Mondayise
  10. Mondayised
  11. Mondayises

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