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jump-started

vb. (en-pastjump-start)

Usage examples of "jump-started".

As far as we can tell the last electromagnetic wave we encountered broke through our shielding and jump-started the new TAGs.

The shock jump-started something in my body, and I coughed, my head spinning, and started to move again.

He was, in his own words, a Coke-aholic who needed a can of the stuff to get jump-started in the morning.