Meaning

1 senses
  1. A digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle to record occurrences in the vicinity, such as traffic accidents that the vehicle has been involved in, to provide evidence for criminal prosecutions, insurance claims, etc.

    Dashcam

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More definitions
  • A camera filming from the dashboard of a car

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Tom has a dashcam in his car.

  2. Mary has a dashcam in her car.

  3. He has a dashcam in his car.

  4. She has a dashcam in her car.

  5. I sent in my dashcam video and the other driver was found at fault for the accident.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle:

Origin

Blend of dash(board) + cam(era).

Blend of dash(board) + cam(era).

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Forms

plural: dashcams

Synonyms

3 synonyms
event data recordercar DVRdriving recorder

Word family

1 related words
RelatedwebcamB1

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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