dash cam

A form of dashcam — 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.

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Meanings

noundash cam (plural dash cams)

plural dash cams

  1. alternativeAlternative form of dashcam.

    Proliferating as well are personal monitoring devices—dash cams, cyclist helmet cameras to record collisions, doorbells equipped with lenses to catch package thieves—that are fast becoming a part of many a city dweller’s everyday arsenal.

    2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018
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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dash cam,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dash%20cam.

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