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Haywire   /hˈeɪwˌaɪr/   Listen
Haywire

adjective
1.
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.  Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky.
2.
Not functioning properly.  Synonyms: amiss, awry, wrong.  "Has gone completely haywire" , "Something is wrong with the engine"
noun
1.
Wire for tying up bales of hay.





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"Haywire" Quotes from Famous Books



... thing, sir," said one of the men. "I was working on the fueling station out on Io, and the screen just went haywire." ...
— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak


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