hot wire
Example Sentences
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“He also told me of the struggles they were having with their equipment — having to hot-wire vehicles just to get from one part of the airport to the other,” Mr. Lopez said.
From Washington Times
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
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