wired

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)d

Etymology

• wire +‎ -ed

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.

5. (poker slang) A pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down
6. (poker slang) three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud

   I was dealt three of a kind, wired.

7. (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 […]

Synonyms

• (equipped with a connection wire): corded

Antonyms

• wireless

Translations

Equipped with wires; connected by wires

• German: kabelgebunden

Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices

• German: verwanzt

Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire

• German: verdrahted

Very excited, hyper; high-strung

• German: aufgedreht

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Verb

wired

1. Simple past tense and past participle of wire.

Anagrams

• weird, weïrd, wider, wried