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quarterbacking

quarterbacking noun: the act of playing as a quarterback. Also the present participle and gerund of quarterback.

Noun

quarterbacking (uncountable)

  1. The act of playing as a quarterback
  2. (US) The action of making criticisms after the event
    • Plenty of past seasons’ events could look ill-conceived in the critical eye of Monday-morning quarterbacking, but previously, the show had earned the benefit of the doubt that missteps on the part of supposedly intelligent characters were a plausible lack of in-world foresight.2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 22 May 2019

Also used as

quarterbacking is also the present participle and gerund of quarterback.

Origin of quarterbacking

From quarterback + -ing.

Phrases with quarterbacking

Questions about quarterbacking

What does quarterbacking mean?
Quarterbacking means the act of playing as a quarterback.
What part of speech is quarterbacking?
Quarterbacking is a noun.

Words near quarterbacking in the dictionary

  1. quarter-zips
  2. quarterage
  3. quarterages
  4. quarterback
  5. quarterbacked
  6. quarterbacking
  7. quarterbacks
  8. quarterboy
  9. quarterboys
  10. quarterdeck
  11. quarterdecker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quarterbacking (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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