backseat driver

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   a meddler who insists on giving unwanted advice

   Broadermeddler

Questions about backseat driver

What does backseat driver mean?

backseat driver means "a meddler who insists on giving unwanted advice".

Is backseat driver a common word?

backseat driver is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.