back-seat drive in English

Forms: back-seat drives [present, singular, third-person], back-seat driving [participle, present], back-seat drove [past], back-seat driven [participle, past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

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)

Inflected forms

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        "To engage in the habit or practice of back-seat driving."
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      ],
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        "transport",
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    {
      "form": "back-seat drives",
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        "third-person"
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    {
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      ],
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        "transport",
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"back-seat drive" meaning in English

Verb

Inflected forms