hot-wire
- v 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
- How did you steal it? Did you hot-wire it? I don't remember.
- The pet cemetery is adorned with fire-hydrant and dog-biscuit tombstones, and the community unites to hot-wire the dead-again pooch.
- Liang chose the cab, a ramshackle Lada he must hot-wire each time he starts it.