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hot-wire

[ verb hot-wahyuhr; adjective hot-wahyuhr ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, hot-wired, hot-wir·ing.

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.

hot-wire

slang.
tr to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by bypassing the ignition switch

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First recorded in 1950–55

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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.

This is made from a deer skin prepared to resemble parchment, stretched on a hoop and perforated full of holes with a hot wire.

It was as if every nerve in their bodies had turned into white-hot wire, and was searing through their flesh.

At 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.

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