The high-beam headlights of a vehicle, set to full brightness for visibility during night driving, or the brightest colors in painting and other visual arts.
From bright as a noun, treating bright colors or the bright setting as countable things. In automotive contexts, 'brights' is informal shorthand for 'bright headlights' or 'high beams,' a practical neologism from everyday speech.
Drivers flashing their brights is a surprisingly complex social code—it can mean 'turn your brights off,' 'oncoming car,' 'there's a cop,' or 'go ahead,' but no formal rulebook exists, so different regions interpret the same flash completely differently.
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