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Haywire

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Noun

1. haywire

wire for tying up bales of hay

Adjective

2. around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky

informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

Example Sentences:
'it used to drive my husband balmy'

3. amiss, awry, haywire, wrong

not functioning properly

Example Sentences:
'something is amiss'
'has gone completely haywire'
'something is wrong with the engine'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Haywire

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adjective (postpositive) informal

1.

(of things) not functioning properly; disorganized (esp in the phrase go haywire)

2.

(of people) erratic or crazy

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Haywire

see synonyms of haywire

noun

1.

wire for tying up bales of hay, straw, etc.

adjective Informal

2.

out of order; disorganized; confused

3.

crazy

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Haywire

see synonyms of haywire

n.

Wire used in baling hay.

adj.
Informal

1. Not functioning or happening in a proper or orderly fashion: machinery that went haywire; an experiment that went haywire.

2. Mentally confused or erratic; crazy: The traveler went haywire over the endless delays.

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