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dash-cam

dash-cam is the alternative form of dashcam.

Meaning of dashcam

Noun

dashcam (plural dashcams)

  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.
    • Why not direct viewers to your website for entire, unedited interviews, an exclusive one-on-one with a local sports star or the whole five minutes of raw police dashcam from that cool chase you aired 20 seconds of?2006, RTNDA Communicator, volume 60, Washington, D.C.: Radio-Television News Directors Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44
    Synonyms:
    car DVR, driving recorder, event data recorder

Forms of dash-cam

pluraldash-cams

Questions about dash-cam

What is dash-cam the alternative form of?
Dash-cam is the alternative form of dashcam.

Words near dash-cam in the dictionary

  1. dash it all
  2. dash off
  3. dash on
  4. dash someone's hopes
  5. dash'd
  6. dash-cam
  7. dash-cams
  8. dash-dotted
  9. dash-wheel
  10. dash-wheels
  11. dasha

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