headlight

English

head +‎ light

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.
(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).

bright light in front of vehicle

Armenian: ցոլարձակ (hy) (cʿolarjak), լուսարձակ (hy) (lusarjak)
Azerbaijani: fara
Belarusian: фа́ра f (fára)
Bulgarian: фар (bg) m (far)
Catalan: far (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 車燈 (zh), 车灯 (zh) (chēdēng), 燈 (zh), 灯 (zh) (dēng), 前照燈 (zh), 前照灯 (zh) (qiánzhàodēng) (front)
Czech: světlomet m
Dutch: koplamp (nl) c
Esperanto: reflektoro (eo)
Estonian: esilatern
Faroese: forlykt f
Finnish: ajovalo (fi)
French: phare (fr) m
Georgian: ფარა (para)
German: Scheinwerfer (de) m, Vorderscheinwerfer m, Frontscheinwerfer m
Greek: προβολέας (el) m (provoléas)
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
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 (ぜんしょうとう, zenshōtō)
Kazakh: фара (fara)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 헤드라이트 (hedeuraiteu), 전조등 (ko) (jeonjodeung)
Kyrgyz: фара (fara)
Macedonian: фар m (far)

“headlight” in Eric Partridge; 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, 2005, →ISBN, page 979.
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