quarterbacking

noun — 2 senses

quarterbacking

noun

Etymology From quarterback + -ing.

1

American football, Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports 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:

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