hot-wire

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb hot-wire has 1 sense

hot-wire(v = verb.motion) Array - 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"

is one way to

start

start up

Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY

hot-wire, v. t.

to start (a car) by using a wire instead of a key, as when stealing the car; the wire is connected to points in the ignition circuit that bypass the key. [WordNet 1.5]