Usually means: Electrical wire heats, cuts foam.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word hot-wire:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. hot-wire: Merriam-Webster
  2. hot-wire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hot-wire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hot-wire, hot-wire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hot-wire: Vocabulary.com
  6. hot-wire: Wordnik
  7. hot-wire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hot-wire: Wiktionary
  9. hot-wire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hot-wire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hot-wire: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hot-wire: Dictionary.com
  13. hot-wire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. hot-wire: Rhymezone
  15. hot-wire: FreeDictionary.org
  16. hot-wire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. hot-wire: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hot-wire: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hot-wire: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See hot-wired as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, slang) To start an automobile engine by bypassing the ignition key wiring.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To steal a vehicle by bypassing the ignition key's security.

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