"back-seat drive" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: back-seat drives [present, singular, third-person], back-seat driving [participle, present], back-seat drove [past], back-seat driven [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|||back-seat drove|back-seat driven}} 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. (automotive, intransitive) To engage in the habit or practice of back-seat driving. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Automotive
    Sense id: en-back-seat_drive-en-verb-SEj~Post Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles

Inflected forms

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