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