ignition key

noun

ignition key

noun
1

A key that starts the combustion engine of a motor vehicle.

  • She fitted the ignition-key into the switch deftly.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 283:

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