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語源

From hot +‎ wire, with hot referring to electrical current.

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hot-wire (third-person singular simple present hot-wires, present participle hot-wiring, simple past and past participle hot-wired)

1. (transitive, informal) To wire, especially to a power supply, using a makeshift electrical connection.

   I bypassed the switch and hot-wired the circuit board to the power supply.

   1. In particular, to start (an automobile engine) by bypassing the ignition key wiring.
2. (transitive, slang) To steal (a vehicle) by bypassing the ignition key's security.
   • 1984, Alex Cox, Repo Man, spoken by Bud (Harry Dean Stanton):

     Never broke into a car, never hotwired a car. Never broke into a truck. 'I shall not cause harm to any vehicle nor the personal contents thereof, nor through inaction let the personal contents thereof come to harm' It's what I call the Repo Code, kid!

   • 2021, Zara Stone, Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 148:

     His attitude grew worse and his crimes escalated: he broke into garages in his neighborhood, he hot-wired cars, and his punches grew harder.

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