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HOT-WIRE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they hot-wire ... he / she / it hot-wires
Past simple: hot-wired
Past participle: hot-wired
-ing form: hot-wiring
Sense 1
Meaning:
Start (a car engine) without a key by bypassing the ignition interlock
Example:
The woman who lost the car keys had to hot-wire her van
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "hot-wire" is one way to...):
start; start up (get going or set in motion)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
