high beam

1. 1.

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

   Broaderbeam

Questions about high beam

What does high beam mean?

high beam means "the beam of a car's headlights that provides distant illumination".

Is high beam a common word?

high beam is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.