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Word: haywire
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Behaving erratically or uncontrollably, especially of a machine or mechanical process; usually used with the verb "go".
- Roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit (from the use of haywire for temporary repairs). Possibly originated because of frayed wires sitting near hay in a hot barn, which caused an explosion (The barn ceased to exist, and it was referred to as having gone "haywire"), or from tendency of slap-dash repairs done with scraps of bailing wire to fail catastrophically at times of mechanical stress.
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Noun:
- Wire used to bind bales of hay.
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