A highly dangerous, fabricated extension cord with male plugs at both extremities. People improperly build them to backfeed power from a portable generator into a house receptacle during an outage. If one end is plugged into a live source, the exposed prongs on the other end become fully energized and lethal to the touch.
Heard on the job
The homeowner tried to power his fridge with a suicide cable and nearly electrocuted his kid.
Also heard as
- suicide cord
- widowmaker