haywire | | |
n. (artifact) | 1. haywire | wire for tying up bales of hay. |
| ~ wire | ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc. |
adj. | 2. around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky | informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.; "it used to drive my husband balmy" |
| ~ insane | afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement.; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter" |
adj. | 3. amiss, awry, haywire, wrong | not functioning properly.; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" |
| ~ malfunctioning, nonfunctional | not performing or able to perform its regular function.; "a malfunctioning valve" |
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