headlight

English

Etymology

From head +‎ light.

Pronunciation

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Noun

headlight (plural headlights)

1. A bright light, with a lens and reflector, on the front of a motor vehicle (or originally a ship or train), designed to illuminate the road when driving at night; normally one of a pair.
2. (US, slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
   • 1993, Quantum Leap, season 5, episode 14, spoken by Al Calavicci (Dean Stockwell):

     Oh, well. She's got... great... casabas. […] Well, you know. Melons. […] Hoo-has? Honkers? Hooters? Headlights? Uh... tatas? Teeters? Tweeters? Tom-toms? Tetons? […] I'm trying to say it. Uh, meatballs. Mangoes. Cream pies. Cupcakes? Uh... bangers? Bouncers? Bulumbas? […] Bazongas? Breasts! I said it.

3. (Canada, slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's erect nipples, partially masked by clothing.
4. (US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A jewel; especially a diamond.
5. (US, slang, chiefly in the plural) Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).

Synonyms

• (motor vehicle light): headlamp
• (breast): See also Thesaurus:breast.
• (nipple): See also Thesaurus:nipples.

Hypernyms

• light

Derived terms

• deer in the headlight syndrome
• dipped headlight
• halo headlight
• headlight fish
• headlight fluid
• headlighting

Translations

bright light in front of vehicle

Afrikaans: hooflig Apache: Western Apache: bidáá Armenian: ցոլարձակ (hy) (cʻolarjak), լուսարձակ (hy) (lusarjak) Azerbaijani: fara Belarusian: фа́ра f (fára) Bulgarian: фар (bg) m (far) Catalan: far (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 車燈 / 车灯 (zh) (chēdēng), 燈 / 灯 (zh) (dēng), 前照燈 / 前照灯 (zh) (qiánzhàodēng) (front) Czech: světlomet (cs) m Danish: kørelys n (collective) Dutch: koplamp (nl) c Esperanto: reflektoro (eo) Estonian: esilatern Faroese: forlykt f, koyriljós n Finnish: ajovalo (fi), valonheitin (fi) French: phare (fr) m Georgian: ფარა (para) German: Scheinwerfer (de) m, Vorderscheinwerfer m, Frontscheinwerfer m Greek: προβολέας (el) m (provoléas) Hebrew: פנס (he) m (panás) Hindi: हेडलाइट (heḍlāiṭ) Hungarian: fényszóró (hu) Icelandic: ökuljós Italian: fanale (it) m, faro (it) m, abbaglianti (it) m pl Japanese: ヘッドライト (ja) (heddoraito), 前照灯 (ja) (ぜんしょうとう, zenshōtō) Kazakh: фара (fara) Khmer: ចង្កៀងមុខ (cɑɑngkiəng muk) Korean: 헤드라이트 (hedeuraiteu), 전조등 (ko) (jeonjodeung) Kyrgyz: фара (fara) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: фар m (far) Malay: lampu puncak Mongolian: Cyrillic: урд гэрэл (urd gerel), том гэрэл (tom gerel), их гэрэл (ix gerel) Norman: veue f Norwegian: Bokmål: hovedlykt m or f, kjørelys Nynorsk: køyrelys Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: reflektor (pl) m Portuguese: lanterna (pt) f (Brazil): farol (pt) m Romanian: far (ro) n Russian: фа́ра (ru) f (fára) Scottish Gaelic: solas mòr m, prìomh-sholas m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: фар m Roman: far (sh) m Shan: ၽႆးၵႃး (phái káa) Slovak: svetlomet m Slovene: žaromet m Spanish: faro (es) m, foco (es) m, farol (es) m (Latin America) Swedish: strålkastare (sv) c, framlykta c, billjus n Tajik: чароғ (čaroġ) Thai: ไฟหน้า (th) (fai-nâa) Turkish: far (tr) Ukrainian: фа́ра f (fára) Uzbek: fara (uz) Vietnamese: đèn pha (vi), pha (vi), pha xe, đèn (vi) Welsh: golau blaen m, priflamp f Yiddish: פֿאָנאַר m (fonar)

See also

• dome light
• fog lamp
• idiot light
• indicator
• sidelight
• taillight

References

• Eric Partridge (2005) “headlights”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 979.
• headlight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lighthead