HOT-WIRE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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

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