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high beam

n. the beam of a car's headlights that provides distant illumination

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High beam (disambiguation)

A high beam is a type of automobile headlight.

High beam may also refer to:

  • Killer in the backseat, an urban legend
  • HighBeam Research, a search engine

Usage examples of "high beam".

If you had a cutter set on high beam, you could go for the edge around the plug.

I'd switched off the spotlight, because I wasn't illuminating anything except my knees and various galactic nebulae, and if I threw up in my lap, I didn't care to scrutinize the mess under a high beam.

The three cars raced at high speed over the nearly level plain as they circled the town once without doing anything to the enemy who shielded their eyes against the blinding glare of the headlights on high beam.

A stunner will act quickly on any warm-blooded creature, but its effect, unless on high beam, was much slower for a reptile, and we kept our weapons on low beam.