brights

Meanings

nounbrights pl (plural only)

pluralplural onlyBold or vivid colours; also, clothes, cosmetics, etc., with such colours.
colloquialdatedpluralplural onlyHousehold utensils (such as cutlery, ornaments, and plate) made of shiny metal.
USpluralplural onlyroadSynonym of high-beams.
Your brights are on.
3 more examples
Drop your brights as soon as approaching lights appear.
1963 July, Morton J. Schultz, “Keeping Your Headlights on the Beam”, in Popular Mechanics, →ISSN, page 161
You can turn your brights on and that helps quite a bit, but you can not leave them on. So you end up driving beyond your headlights more than half the time.
2004 July 18, Rocky Roads, “Re: big rig out of control (Photo)”, in misc.transport.trucking (Usenet), message-ID <cdearo$ufn@library2.airnews.net>
The moment I flashed my brights this animal started to run across the road.
2006 March 31, Linda S. Godfrey, Hunting the American Werewolf: Beast Men in Wisconsin and Beyond, Madison: Trails Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 139
Synonyms: high-beams

noun

verb

UKdialectalindicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of bright

nounSynonym of high-beams.

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From bright (adjective) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).

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