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live wire

  1. a wire carrying an electric current
  2. ☆ Informal a person who is energetic and enterprising

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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