headlight

English

Etymology

head +‎ light

Pronunciation

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Noun

headlight (plural headlights)

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.
(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.
(Canada, slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's erect nipples, partially masked by clothing.
(US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A jewel; especially a diamond.
(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

Translations

bright light in front of vehicle

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 (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
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)
Yiddish: פֿאָנאַר m (fonar)

References

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

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