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Monday morning quarterback

Monday morning quarterback is the alternative form of Monday-morning quarterback.

Meaning of Monday-morning quarterback

Noun

Monday-morning quarterback (plural Monday-morning quarterbacks)

  1. (US, idiomatic) Someone who criticizes with hindsight.
    • Yet some Monday-morning quarterbacks also noted that, just as 1960 was the first TV election and 2016 was the first social-media election, the 2024 Presidential campaign was the first to be conducted largely on live streams and long-form podcasts, media that happen to be thoroughly dominated by...2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2025

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Forms of Monday morning quarterback

pluralMonday morning quarterbacks

Questions about Monday morning quarterback

What is Monday morning quarterback the alternative form of?
Monday morning quarterback is the alternative form of Monday-morning quarterback.

Words near Monday morning quarterback in the dictionary

  1. Monday
  2. Monday Club
  3. Monday fever
  4. Monday morning disease
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  6. Monday morning quarterback
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  8. Monday-morning
  9. Monday-morning quarterback
  10. Monday-morning quarterbacked
  11. Monday-morning quarterbacking

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