Definitions for hot-wire

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Spelling: [verb hot-wahyuh r

IPA: /verb ˈhɒtˈwaɪər; adjective ˈhɒtˌwaɪər/

Hot-Wire is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 163 anagrams from letters in hot-wire (-ehiortw).

Definitions for hot-wire

adjective

1. Electricity, Engineering. depending for its operation on the lengthening or increasing resistance of a wire when it is heated:

verb (used with object)

1. Slang. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by short-circuiting the ignition.

Origin of hot-wire

First recorded in 1950-55

Examples for hot-wire

The instructors taught me how to pick locks, hot-wire cars and get over barbed wire fences.

Don't operate a transmitting set without a hot-wire ammeter in the aerial.