Hot-wire

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  hot-wire \hot-wire\ v. t.
     to start (a car) by using a wire instead of a key, as when
     stealing the car; the wire is connected to points in the
     ignition circuit that bypass the key.
     [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hot-wire
       v : 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"