dashcam

noun

dash·​cam ˈdash-ˌkam 

variants or less commonly dash cam or dashboard camera

plural dashcams also dash cams or dashboard cameras

: a video camera mounted usually on the dashboard of a vehicle and used to continuously record activity through the vehicle's windshield

Typically, police dashcams are used to gather evidence during traffic stops.

—Janissa Delzo

The fight took place on the right side of the police car, out of view from the dash cam.

—Nathalie Baptiste

Examples of dashcam in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After the traffic light turned green, as Burkhart slowed down to stay next to Langs’ car, two gunshots can be heard on Langs’ dashcam video at about 6:35 p.m., police wrote in the affidavit. —Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Feb. 2025

The small plane crash in a residential area of Northeast Philadelphia on Friday, Jan. 31, was captured in shocking doorbell camera and dashcam footage by local residents. —Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025

The Ohio State Highway Patrol has released dashcam footage showing a traffic stop and the eventual arrest of four men who are suspects in the December burglary of an Ohio home owned by Cincinnati Bengals star Joe Burrow. —Chantz Martin, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2025

These millions of dashcams are now able to gather and constantly update data on the state of the roads with no cost other than the rapidly dropping cost of mobile data. —Brad Templeton, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dashcam

• aplomb
• balaam
• cocom
• embalm
• islam
• pogrom
• salaam
• sitcom
• balm
• bom
• bomb
• calm

Kids Definition

dashcam

noun

dash·​cam

ˈdash-ˌkam

variants also dash cam or dashboard camera

plural dashcams also dash cams or dashboard cameras

: a video camera mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle and used to continuously record information