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high beam

or highbeam

noun

  1. an automobile headlight beam providing bright, long-range illumination of a darkened road and chiefly for use in driving in nonurban areas.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of high beam1

First recorded in 1935–40

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Example Sentences

Think of it like auto high-beams on modern cars, except the high beams never actually shut off when an oncoming car comes around a corner.

Switch off your high beams around other drivers, and your driving lights will turn off.

It’s like trying to look at the road while another car’s high beams are pointed in your direction.

There ensconcing themselves on a high beam, they soon forgot the cobwebs in the interest of the debate.

Presently there was a glow of yellow light which illuminated the whole gymnasium and rested especially upon the high beam.

The cat curled himself in front of the fire, while the cock flew up on a high beam.

The older girls climbed the ladder to a high beam, and then would shoot off on to the soft hay far below.

The other bear—the one that fell from the high beam—had the handsomest black, glossy pelt I have ever seen.

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