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What does hot-wire mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hot-wire? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (slang) to start an automobile engine by bypassing the ignition key wiring
  2. (slang) to steal a vehicle by bypassing the ignition key's security
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Now he is trying to hot-wire the political system and speed away with the governorship.
Or maybe somebody rich, who can hot-wire an election without waiting for the party.
He says while the joyriders tried to hot-wire many of the pieces of construction equipment, they only managed to start one machine.
From my third floor vantage point, I could see a young would-be car thief trying to hot-wire an old van that I had not seen move in over a year.
The repossession company can hot-wire your car and drive it away from any location, as long as it doesn't illegally enter your locked garage or physically threaten you.
It's rather like showing you can hot-wire a car to start the ignition without keys.

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