body camera

noun

variants or less commonly body cam or bodycam

ˈbä-dē-ˌkam 

: a video camera that is worn on clothing and used to continuously record activity in front of the wearer

Americans are deeply divided over race relations and police use of force. One thing they don't seem to be divided over, however, is support for police body cameras.

—Tom Knight

Examples of body camera in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Authorities also obtained assistance from multiple banks and reviewed security camera footage, financial records and body camera footage from previous investigations involving similar scams. — Sergio Candido, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Those officers were not wearing body cameras, raising questions about why the agency still hadn’t gotten the cameras out to officers in the field. — Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

Homeland Security said after Salgado Araujo’s death that body cameras had been deployed to more than half of ICE field offices and that the remainder would get them in the next 60 days. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

The attack was recorded on Hager’s body camera, and the footage was shown in court during his four-day trial. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1993, in the meaning defined above