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Etymology

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dash +‎ light

Noun

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dashlight (plural dashlights)

  1. A light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile.
    • 1985, George William Summers, William Stanley Peters, Charles P. Armstrong, Basic Statistics in Business and Economics, page 472:
      Drivers are to be exposed to the emergencies under different levels of dashlight intensity. The response variable will be the sum of a driver's reaction times to the series of emergencies under a given level of intensity.