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hot-water bag |
hot-water bottle |
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hot-wire
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hot-wire
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb hot-wire has 1 sense
- hot-wire(v = verb.motion) Array - start (a car engine) without a key by bypassing the ignition interlock; "The woman who lost the car keys had to hot-wire her van" is one way to start, start up
Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
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]
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