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hot-wire verb to bypass a car’s ignition system and start the car by cutting and connecting wires under the dashboard US, 1954- We’ll just steal it right back. All right? Now, you get some wire. We need, oh, about a foot. We can hot-wire it. — American Graffiti, 1973
- [W]e intend to have Peter Wolf explaining how to hotwire a car[.] — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 142, 1974
- If a blast came, I then planned, in five minutes I could hot-wire and steal a car[.] — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 64, 1978
- Never broke into a car. Never hot-wired a car. — Repo Man, 1984
- I’ll hotwire it. Car theft is my Vato speciality. — Stephen J. Cannell, The Tin Collectors, p. 326, 2001
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