quarterbacking
English
Etymology
quarterback + -ing
Noun
quarterbacking (uncountable)
- (American football) The act of playing as a quarterback
- (US) The action of making criticisms after the event
- 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club[1]:
- 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.
Verb
quarterbacking