haywire
adjective
informal us
/ˈheɪ.waɪr/ uk
/ˈheɪ.waɪər/ go haywire
The television's gone haywire.
Meaning of haywire in English
(Definition of haywire from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of haywire
haywire
Without such regulation, the signals simply go haywire.
From Wired
When that mismatch repair system goes haywire, people can end up with colon cancer.
From WIRED
In the last five years, food prices have gone haywire, rising steadily while spiking three times, causing global food shortages and social unrest.
From Wired
They feel like society's abandonment of it is a sign that all has gone haywire.
From NPR
Some scheduled maintenance yesterday that wasn't intended to interrupt service went haywire and wound up taking down a critical database cluster.
From TechCrunch
They underpin our health, tie us to our ancestors and commonly go haywire in disease.
From Phys.Org
The biggest benefit of having this drought is that in order to get things fixed, you have to have things go a little haywire.
From Slate Magazine
Planning, or prioritizing, helps ground your decision-making when things go haywire.
From Fast Company
It's sophisticated enough to make sure your palm will never mark up your canvas or send your app going haywire.
From Wired
More than likely, your emotions will go haywire and you'll have a terrible time trying to sort through your real feelings.
From Huffington Post
It's just the latest development in a season that has gone haywire for a club that was expected to compete for a playoff spot.
A lot of us are forced to keep schedules that could make our bodies' internal clocks go haywire.
From NPR
Wondrously strange and sinister stories of other worlds, future times, and everyday life gone haywire.
From Slate Magazine
Our definitions of populism and elitism have gone haywire.
From TIME
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