hot-wire hot-windy • hot-wire meter · · · Info · Definitions · Characters · · hot-wire · · Text Common · · Latin · · Scripts 8 · · Length Definitions · · · (verb) start (a car engine) without a key by bypassing the ignition interlock. Example: "The woman who lost the car keys had to hot-wire her van." · · Verb Definition 1 Characters · · - hyphen-minus U+002D e latin small letter e U+0065 h latin small letter h U+0068 i latin small letter i U+0069 o latin small letter o U+006F r latin small letter r U+0072 t latin small letter t U+0074 w latin small letter w U+0077