Wiktionary
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.