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Backseat Driver

Definition: Backseat Driver

Backseat Driver

Noun

1. Someone who insists on giving unwanted advice.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Backseat Driver

Synonym: kibitzer (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Backseat Driver

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Backseat Driver 17 (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Backseat Driver

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

  • Automotive Series: Backseat Driver (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Backseat Driver

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

backseat driver

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Backseat Driver

Language Translations for "backseat driver"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

beifahrer (co driver, co-driver, front-seat passenger, navigator, pillion rider, sidecar passenger). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

más dolgába beavatkozó személy, háttérből irányító személy. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackseatbay iverdray.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Backseat Driver

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-e-i-k-r-r-s-t-v"

-4 letters: advertiser, barricades, breadstick, cabdrivers, caretakers, eradicates, reradiates.

-5 letters: abdicates, aberrated, abreacted, acerbated, acerbates, acierated, acierates, advertise, backdates, bacterias, barracked, barricade, bestirred, bickerers, bidarkees, bracketed, braveries, cabdriver, careerist, caretaker, caretakes, catbriers, creakiest, derivates, describer, detickers, diverters, dreariest, eradiates, eradicate, racketier, radicates, redbreast, redbricks, redirects, reradiate, restacked, retracked, riverbeds, sidetrack, streakier, traceried, traceries, trackside, traversed, veratrias, verditers, vertebras, vesicated, vicarates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Backseat Driver


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 63 6B 73 65 61 74      44 72 69 76 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01110011 01100101 01100001 01110100 00100000 01000100 01110010 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#115 &#101 &#97 &#116 &#32 &#68 &#114 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0063 006B 0073 0065 0061 0074      0044 0072 0069 0076 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36676977857167862388475887184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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