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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



... white expanse ahead, trying to determine where his ship would crash. Something was haywire in the fuel system of his Interstar Runabout. He was losing altitude fast, so fast that all five pairs of his eyes couldn't focus on a place ...
— Solar Stiff • Chas. A. Stopher

... 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

... succinctly. "Full of iron, or somethin'. A compass always goes haywire within a radius of ten ...
— The Cavern of the Shining Ones • Hal K. Wells



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