wire for tying up bales of hay
Used in a Sentence
haywire
How to use haywire in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for haywire.
Editorial note
It's supposed to be designed so it can't go haywire that way, but it does.
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Quick take
wire for tying up bales of hay
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of haywire gathered in one view.
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"
not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for haywire.
noun
wire for tying up bales of hay
adjective
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"
See also: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy
adjective
not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
Example sentences
It's supposed to be designed so it can't go haywire that way, but it does.
In an anechoic chamber, this noise is gone, and your filter goes haywire.
A user went haywire and downvoted a whole bunch of comments.
So just like during the flash crash, they turned off their machines, and the markets went haywire.
Then there's always the risk that any big project is the 1 in 10 that goes completely haywire.
The first is a real-time account of a bomb-gone-haywire scare in Arkansas, and the people called in to deal with it.
I think modern art is what happens when your "understanding art" circuits get into a feedback loop of some kind, there's something going haywire in there.
I know those guys are super smart and all, but I can't read any of their marketing materials without my bullshit detector going haywire.
Just guessing what type of stuff you do, and also guessing how the organization at Amazon is set up, many times the guys at some level really do want to know where things went haywire.
The strategy is simple and could work as any other strategy but any algo system like this needs lots of capital to make a decent profit, and when lots of capital is in question it needs to be redundant when things go haywire - and haywire go they shall.
Nice anecdote about Knight Capital:"When the market opened on Aug. 1, a new piece of trading software that Knight had just installed went haywire and started aggressively buying shares... By the end of Aug. 2, Knight had spent $440 million unwinding its trades"I'd love to know more about that particular launch.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use haywire in a sentence?
It's supposed to be designed so it can't go haywire that way, but it does.
What does haywire mean?
wire for tying up bales of hay
What part of speech is haywire?
haywire is commonly used as noun, adjective.