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/ˈheɪwaɪər/ Word Origin. Idioms. go haywire. (informal) to stop working correctly or become out of control. After that, things started to go haywire. The clock seems to have gone a bit haywire. Questions about grammar and vocabulary? Find the answers with Practical English Usage online, your indispensable guide to problems in English.
noun. wire used to bind bales of hay. adjective. , Informal. in disorder: The town is haywire because of the bus strike. out of control; disordered; crazy: The car went haywire. He's been haywire since he got the bad news. haywire. / ˈheɪˌwaɪə / adjective. (of things) not functioning properly; disorganized (esp in the phrase go haywire )
adjective. 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. insane. afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement. adjective. not functioning properly.
