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Definition of haywire:
Synonyms for haywire:
moonstruck, kooky, certifiable, barmy, cuckoo, wild, cockamamie, non compos mentis, nutlike, soft, cracked, nutty, zestful, mad, crackers, mental, loony tunes, bats, insane, balmy, unhinged, daffy, zany, lunatic, goofy, out of order, silly, loony, sappy, maniacal, bedlam, dotty, demented, malfunctioning, loopy, bughouse, unbalanced, crackbrained, psycho, cranky, scatty, round the bend, bonkers, batty, crackpot, amiss, meshuga, gaga, screwy, daft, cockamamy, wrong, crazy, crazed, mild, unsound, alligatored, wacko, zesty, yeasty, kookie, chapped, the matter, roughened, brainsick, wud, fruity, buggy, whacky, loco, deranged, wacky, awry, nonfunctional, nuts, psychotic, around the bend.
Usage examples:
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Did you ever see a teletype machine in operation, particularly one that suddenly went haywire?
- "The Electronic Mind Reader", John Blaine. -
There was absolutely no way of telling how much time elapsed once that happened, for the only clocks that did not go haywire on Pluto were spring- wind clocks, and there hadn't been a spring- wind clock in the solar system for a hundred and fifty years.
- "World Beyond Pluto", C. H. Thames. -
This morning, the primary exciter on the new ultracosmotron went haywire, and the beam of sodium nuclei burned through part of the accelerator tube wall.
- "Psichopath", Gordon Randall Garrett.