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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


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