hot-wire

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Verb hot-wire has 1 sense

hot-wire - start (a car engine) without a key by short-circuiting the ignition system; "The woman who lost the car keys had to hot-wire her van"
--₁ is one way to start, start up
Sample sentence:
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hot-wire

Part of speech: verb, noun

Senses:

Verb: to start a vehicle without using a key by bypassing the ignition system

Example sentence: He hot-wired the car after losing his keys.

Verb: to illegally bypass an electric circuit to gain unauthorized access or manipulate it

Example sentence: The hackers managed to hot-wire the security system and gain entry to the database.

Noun: a wire or device used to bypass an electrical system or circuit

Example sentence: The thief used a hot-wire to start the stolen motorcycle.

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