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Meanings of haywire in English

Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.

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Not functioning properly.

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Usage of haywire in English
1
I try to follow his words, but my thoughts are going haywire.
Divergent
2
In a fire test prior to opening, the safety mechanisms went haywire.
News.com.au
3
I'd probably go haywire if I had to talk about it tonight.
In the Dark
4
At most companies when something goes haywire, they call their IT department.
Wired
5
It appeared that the Law of Diminishing Returns was going haywire too.
The new yorker
6
This has happened before too, except the needle usually just goes haywire.
Pandaemonium
7
The overhead lights had gone haywire and kept flickering on and off.
The next to die
8
And when markets go haywire, that can change your life and mine.
The Guardian
9
All the raging teenage hormones in her body went haywire around him.
Eve of darkness
10
Other received notions of women being haunted and going haywire are floated.
The Guardian
11
ECCO received reports of a quar- ter million computers going haywire yesterday.
Terminal Compromise
12
Civilian air traffic has reported several instances of their navigation systems going haywire.
News.com.au
13
Which we'll probably all need if something goes haywire with these nuclear reactions.
The South African
14
A bank computer goes haywire and starts transferring money into the wrong account.
Firewall
15
If something goes haywire, don't be too anxious about fixing everything right away.
Ebony
16
But sometimes things go haywire the second I walk by them.
Proven guilty
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