hot-wire
Slang. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by short-circuiting the ignition.
Electricity, Engineering. depending for its operation on the lengthening or increasing resistance of a wire when it is heated: hot-wire anemometer; hot-wire microphone.
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How to use hot-wire in a sentence
The instructors taught me how to pick locks, hot-wire cars and get over barbed wire fences.
The thin screaming came again, like a hot wire drawn down the gelid morning.
The Jewels of Aptor | Samuel R. DelanyThis is made from a deer skin prepared to resemble parchment, stretched on a hoop and perforated full of holes with a hot wire.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West | J. M. PeckIt was as if every nerve in their bodies had turned into white-hot wire, and was searing through their flesh.
Astounding Stories, July, 1931 | VariousAt one time eight men burned spots on their faces and hands with hot wire, and then sprinkled the spots with black pepper.
These were made of deer skins in the state of parchment, stretched over a hoop and perforated with a hot wire.
Life & Times of Col. Daniel Boone | Cecil B. Hartley
British Dictionary definitions for hot-wire
(tr) slang to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by bypassing the ignition switch
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