hot-wire

The steel door had sliced it like a hot wire going through cheese.

What color is the "hot" wire in your electrical appliances?

But the potential, relative to ground, is applied to only the hot wire.

He jerked back, just as something other stabbed his mind like hot wire.

She didn't get shocked once and never felt a hot wire under her feet.

Meanwhile, Cal goes outside to try and hot wire a car.

I got a quick hit of adrenaline, as though a hot wire had touched me.

How would you talk to people about hot wires falling on their car?

He was working on the hot wire around the fence.

One end of the circuit, the hot wire, leads to the power plant.