hot wire
Example Sentences
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Some Taliban fighters stood hunched over the engines or tried to hot-wire every vehicle they saw.
From Los Angeles Times
The men had to hot-wire it, break the ignition and jumpstart the car before it was ready to hit the road back to their hotel in Granby, Colorado.
From Washington Times
But the world my son is entering is already a blinking bazaar of distractions, engineered to hot-wire our attention.
From New York Times
How did she know how to hot-wire a car?
From BBC
“What we haven’t done that successfully is hot-wire all these people together so we can have a panoramic view of problems and solutions.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
