suicide cable (English, noun)
expansion: suicide cable (plural suicide cables)
Senses:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A simple electrical cord with prongs on both ends; plugging one end into a live outlet (for example a generator) and the other end into a dead outlet (in a house with no power) allows power to be injected from the live outlet into the dead one.
tags: informal
Forms:
form: suicide cables
tags: plural