"back-seat game" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-back-seat game.wav Forms: back-seat games [present, singular, third-person], back-seat gaming [participle, present], back-seat gamed [participle, past], back-seat gamed [past], backseat game [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} back-seat game (third-person singular simple present back-seat games, present participle back-seat gaming, simple past and past participle back-seat gamed)
  1. (video games) To commentate excessively on the in-game decisions and actions of someone playing a video game, whilst not playing the game. Categories (topical): Video games
    Sense id: en-back-seat_game-en-verb-1R8FvE9A Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: video-games

Inflected forms

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