quarterbacking
/kwˈɔɹtɚbˌækɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
present participle and gerund of quarterback
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From quarterback + -ing.
Usage
- Uncountable
- American usage