dashlight

English

Etymology

From dash +‎ light.

Noun

dashlight (plural dashlights)

1. A light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile.
   • 1985, George William Summers, William Stanley Peters, Charles P. Armstrong, Basic Statistics in Business and Economics, page 472:

     Drivers are to be exposed to the emergencies under different levels of dashlight intensity. The response variable will be the sum of a driver's reaction times to the series of emergencies under a given level of intensity.