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Back seat

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the seats in the rear of a vehicle.

    "2011, Rebecca Black featuring Patrice Wilson, Friday Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends Kickin' in the front seat Sittin' in the back seat Gotta make my mind up Which seat can I take?"

  2. 2
    A lesser or inferior position; a position of deliberate noninvolvement, in which decision-making or leadership is left to others. especially, informal

    "The bluntness of King Vajiralongkorn's intervention—and the determination it reveals to resist relatively small checks on royal power—is both a snub to the junta and a worry for democrats, some of whom had dared hope that the new king might be happy to take a back seat in public life."

Etymology

From back + seat.

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