wired
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /waɪɹd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /waɪəd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Adjective[edit]
wired (comparative more wired, superlative most wired)
- Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
- Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
- After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.
- (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
- (poker slang) Being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down.
- Synonym: back to back
- (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
- I was dealt three of a kind, wired.
- (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, Cincinnati Magazine (volume 38, number 3, December 2004, 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 […]
- 2002, Derek Da Cunha, Singapore in the new millennium: challenges facing the city-state (page 247)
Synonyms[edit]
- (equipped with a connection wire): corded
Antonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
equipped with wires
reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire
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very excited, hyper; high-strung
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Verb[edit]
wired
- simple past tense and past participle of wire
References[edit]
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
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