Meaning

1 senses

  1. (rare)To attach or fix with haywire.

Examples

6 sentences

  1. The team went haywire after winning the world cup.

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  2. The drunkard had too much to drink; he has gone haywire.

    deDer Trinker hatte zu viel getrunken und spielte verrückt. — Tamy

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  3. It is essential to keep calm in a time of crisis and avoid going haywire.

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  4. Tom went haywire.

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  5. The hackers hacked into Tom's car and made it go haywire.

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Origin

From hay + wire.

From hay + wire.

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Forms

haywires, haywiring, haywired, haywired
Base formhaywire · to haywire
3rd person singularhaywires
Present participlehaywiring
Past simplehaywired
Past participlehaywired

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhaywire
he, she, ithaywires

Past simpleLesson

all personshaywired

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave haywired
he, she, ithas haywired

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill haywire

Word family

2 related words
Relatedblow upgo bonkers

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hawkishhayB2haystackhazardB1hazardousB2haze

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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