Definition of "hot-wired" [hot-wired]

• Of a vehicle that has been hot-wired; stolen. (adjective)
• Past and past participle of "hot-wire;" to steal a vehicle by bypassing the ignition key's security. (verb)

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• "The company set up war rooms in Washington, D.C., and Mountain View, with computers hot-wired to the FCC auction site."
• "Coming full-circle, back to Sachs' original cobbled-together hot-wired artifacts he's best known for, is his new series of beautiful foam core bricolage that imitates the highly coveted 18th c. porcelain collections produced by a factory in Sevres, founded by Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV c."
• "As if Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins were three juvenile delinquents who'd hot-wired that rocket ship when nobody was looking and taken a $355 million joy ride to the moon."