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hot-wired

hot-wired adjective: stolen by the hot-wire technique. Also the simple past and past participle of hot-wire.

Adjective

hot-wired

  1. (slang) Stolen by the hot-wire technique.

Also used as

hot-wired is also the simple past and past participle of hot-wire.

Questions about hot-wired

What does hot-wired mean?
Hot-wired means stolen by the hot-wire technique.
What part of speech is hot-wired?
Hot-wired is an adjective.

Words near hot-wired in the dictionary

  1. hot-water can
  2. hot-water cans
  3. hot-water heater
  4. hot-water heaters
  5. hot-wire
  6. hot-wired
  7. hot-wires
  8. hot-wiring
  9. Hotak
  10. Hotaki
  11. Hotakis

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