Usually means: Malfunctioning or behaving very erratically.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. haywire: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. haywire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. haywire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. haywire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. haywire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Haywire, haywire: Wordnik
  7. haywire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. haywire: Wiktionary
  9. haywire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. haywire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. haywire: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. haywire: Dictionary.com
  13. haywire: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. haywire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. haywire: Rhymezone
  17. haywire: Free Dictionary
  18. haywire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Haywire: The Word Detective
  20. haywire: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. haywire: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. haywire: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. haywire: A Word A Day
  2. haywire: Idioms

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  1. Haywire: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (haywire)

noun:  Wire used to bind bales of hay.
adjective:  Roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit (from the use of haywire for temporary repairs).
adjective:  Behaviorally erratic or uncontrollable, especially of a machine or mechanical process.

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