back-seat gamer

See also: backseat gamer

English

Alternative forms

• backseat gamer

Etymology

Formed by analogy with back-seat driver.

Noun

back-seat gamer (plural back-seat gamers)

1. (Internet, video games) A person who excessively commentates on the in-game decisions and actions of someone playing a video game, whilst not playing the game.

See also

• armchair quarterback, armchair general, gatecrasher, interloper, peeping tom, persona non grata, encroacher, kibitzer, meddler, nosy parker, marplot, buttinsky, busybody