What does "dashcam" mean?

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.

What is a synonym for "dashcam"?

Common synonyms include: car dvr, driving recorder, event data recorder.

Dashcam

//ˈdæʃˌkæm// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

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?"
2
A camera filming from the dashboard of a car wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

car dvr driving recorder event data recorder

Example

More examples

"I caught the whole accident on my dashcam. Do you want a copy of the video?"

Etymology

Blend of dash(board) + cam(era).

Related phrases

digital video recorder

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