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The glass that takes bugs for you so your face doesn't have to.
means The front window of a vehicle, shielding driver and passengers from wind, rain, and debris.
from A straightforward compound of 'wind' plus 'screen' (something that shields or protects), coined once cars existed to need one — British English preferred this literal, functional name, while American English went with the more technical 'windshield' instead.
- brit vs us
- americans call it a windshield
- lamination trick
- plastic layer stops it shattering into knives
- heated wires
- some have invisible defrosters baked inside glass
- wiper origin
- invented by a woman, mary anderson, 1903