wired

English

Etymology

From wire +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /waɪəd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /waɪɹd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d

Adjective

wired (comparative more wired, superlative most wired)

1. Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
2. Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
3. Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
4. (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.

   After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.

   • 1980, “Totally Wired”, performed by The Fall:

     I drank a jar of coffee / And then I took some of these / And I'm totally wired

   • 1997, Bob Dylan, “Love Sick”, in Time Out of Mind:

     I'm walking through streets that are dead / Walking, walking with you in my head / My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired

   • 2016, Doseone, “Enter the Gungeon”, in Enter the Gungeon OST:

     Too wired to die, too under fire to think

5. (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
6. (slang) All worked out; completely understood.
   • 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:

     You find out where the rocks are, how the waves are breaking over the rocks or reef. Find out if there's any funny little fish who might be mad - things like that. What we call "getting a place wired." After you get it wired, it's just like... riding waves back in the U.S.A., except you aren't. You're in Africa.

7. (poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.

   Synonym: back to back

8. (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.

   I was dealt three of a kind, wired.

9. (informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
   • 2002, Derek Da Cunha, Singapore in the new millennium: challenges facing the city-state, page 247:

     In typical Singaporean style, however, once the decision to get wired was made, the various agencies moved to ensure the Internet diffused very quickly.

   • 2004 December, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 38, number 3, page 44:

     Coffee drinkers now have yet another way to get wired. Laptop and Tablet PC users can have their double grande mocha lattes and surf the Web simultaneously at STARBUCKS […]

Synonyms

• (equipped with a connection wire): corded

Antonyms

• wireless

Derived terms

• autowired
• hardwired
• hot-wired
• razor-wired

Translations

equipped with wires

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: langallinen, kiinteä (fi)
• French: branché (fr)
• German: kabelgebunden (de)
• Hungarian: vezetékes (hu)
• Spanish: conectado (es), cableado (es), alámbrico

equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices

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• Finnish: salakuunneltu (fi)
• French: sur écoute (fr) m or f
• German: verwanzt (de)
• Hungarian: bemikrofonozott, bedrótozott
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: langalla vahvistettu, langalla kiinnitetty
• French: attaché (fr)
• German: verdrahtet (de), mit Draht verstärkt
• Hungarian: huzalbetétes, drótbetétes, huzalozott, drótozott, drót- (hu), huzal- (hu), huzalos, drótos (hu), dróttal összekötött/összefogott
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

very excited, hyper; high-strung

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: ylikierroksilla käyvä (verb)
• French: surexcité (fr)
• German: aufgedreht (de), aufgekratzt (de)
• Hungarian: izgatott (hu), feszült (hu), (colloquial) felpörgött, felspannolt
• Spanish: enchufado (es) (slang)

Verb

wired

1. simple past and past participle of wire

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

Anagrams

• Dwire, WEIRD, weird, weïrd, wider, wierd, wride, wried

Middle English

Noun

wired

1. Alternative form of werde