Crossword clues for haywire
haywire
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"soft wire for binding bales of hay," by 1891, from hay + wire (n.). Adjective meaning "poorly equipped, makeshift" is 1905, American English, from the sense of something only held together with haywire, particularly said to be from use of the stuff in New England lumber camps for jury-rigging and makeshift purposes, so that hay wire outfit became the "contemptuous term for loggers with poor logging equipment" [Bryant, "Logging," 1913]. Its springy, uncontrollable quality led to the sense in go haywire (by 1915).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit (from the use of haywire for temporary repairs). 2 Behaving erratically or uncontrollably, especially of a machine or mechanical process; usually used with the verb "go". n. wire used to bind bales of hay.
WordNet
adj. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky]
not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" [syn: amiss(p), awry(p), wrong(p)]
n. wire for tying up bales of hay
Wikipedia
Haywire is a Canadian hard rock band originally from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Haywire may refer to:
- Baling wire, used in an agricultural setting and industrial setting for everything from mending fences to manually binding square bales of hay
- Behaving erratically or uncontrollably, see wikt:haywire
Haywire is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Haywire is a sketch comedy television series which was aired by Fox Broadcasting Company as part of its 1990-91 lineup. Haywire included segments such as:
"Mind Your Manners with Billy Quan", which described etiquette for kung fu practitioners, which was originally a sketch from the Seattle-based sketch comedy show, " Almost Live!"; "The Persuaders", in which cast members attempted to persuade people on the street to do unusual, zany things; and "Thrillseekers", in which the introduction to the old Chuck Connors show was used to introduce people who had boring jobs or who were in very mundane, nonthreatening situations.
Other features included commercial spoofs and showing scenes from both old black-and-white films and shots of people on the street with redubbed and presumably funnier dialogue. Between each segment a Bill Plympton animation would run.
The program was cancelled in January 1991.
Haywire is an album released by American country music artist Chris LeDoux. Overall, it is his 26th album and his last under the Liberty banner before it was renamed Capitol Records. "Honky Tonk World", "Tougher Than the Rest", and "Dallas Days and Fort Worth Nights" were released as singles. The album peaked at #17 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
Haywire is the fourth studio album by American country music singer Josh Turner. It was released on February 9, 2010 via MCA Nashville and debuted at number five on the U.S. Billboard 200, and number two on the Top Country Albums, selling 85,000 copies. The album produced three singles, including the Number One hits " Why Don't We Just Dance" and " All Over Me." As with his previous three studio albums, Turner worked with producer Frank Rogers.
Haywire (ISBN 978-0-307-73959-9) is the 1977 memoir by actress and writer Brooke Hayward (born 1937), daughter of theatrical agent and producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan. It is a #1 New York Times Best Seller and was on the list for 17 weeks. In Haywire, Brooke details her experience of growing up immersed in the glamorous and extravagant lifestyle afforded by her parents’ successful Hollywood and Broadway careers and tells the story of how her very privileged, beautiful family and their seemingly idyllic life fell apart.
Haywire is a 1966 Australian TV play. It was part of Australian Playhouse.
Haywire is a 2011 American action thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas, and Michael Douglas. Carano, a mixed martial arts fighter, performs her own stunts in the film. The score is by Northern Irish DJ and composer David Holmes.
Carano is cast as Mallory Kane, an operative who works for a company that handles sensitive " black operations" covertly so that the government can maintain plausible deniability, and who is targeted for assassination by a conspiracy that she is forced to unravel.
Haywire is a collaborative mixtape by American hip hop recording artist Hopsin and rapper SwizZz. The project was the debut release by independent hip hop record label Funk Volume. It was released on July 18, 2009 via the DatPiff in addition a physical release of the project debuted as well onto iTunes on May 8, 2012. The mixtape spawned three singles, "Lucifer Effect", "Bad Motherfucker" and "Leave Me Alone". As of 2016, the project has been downloaded over 500,000 times. Physical editions of the mixtape are now unavailable for purchase and out of print due to the label Funk Volume now defunct as the physical copy had to be purchased through the Funk Volume website which is currently unavailable.
Usage examples of "haywire".
Jane, who started dieting about forty years ago at the age of twelve, the same time her adolescent hormones began to go haywire.
Though he had shown promising abilities during his childhood, the biochemical changes of puberty had caused his tolerance to go haywire, making his body reject the Veritas drug as rapidly as an unmodified human would.
As floodwater spills over the glass walls, temperature, salinity, pH and oxygen levels go haywire.
Chapter Forty-two With the environmental-control system in the terminal gone haywire and all the moist, overheating bodies crammed together, the atmosphere was suffocating.
It will be a haywire rig, with no safety interlocks, so use enough watch technicians to be able to catch trouble before it happens.
While the high-up mess of wavicles went haywire, fierce rays struck him like vicious sunburn, forcing him to close his eyelids to protect his pupils.
But if we're dealing with a CIA officer gone haywire, someone like that, the cases of the five couples may, in fact, be connected, may be serial killings.
I mean, you only use back-ups if the computer itself goes haywire, don't you?
Those are such ailments as hardening of the arteries, coronary heart disease, embolisms, and almost all the many forms of cancer-diseases where one or another body mechanism suddenly goes haywire, without any visible cause.
Those are such ailments as hardening of the arteries, coronary heart disease, embolisms, and almost all the many forms of cancerdiseases where one or another body mechanism suddenly goes haywire, without any visible cause.
He'll go home and try develop a haywire egg beater, and finish up playing with it while in Fawcett's care.
At 1:30 the Operations Center intercepted a report from the Air Defense station at Nakhodka to the intelligence office of the Marshal of the Air Force that their radar had gone haywire for nearly four minutes but that everything seemed to be all right now.
I simply gripped that haywired joint in one hand, opened Peewee's empty bottle with the other, swung over fast and opened the oxygen bottle wide-jerked my hand across and grabbed the valve of Peewee's bottle and watched those gauges.
He might have been anybodysomeone from show business, or a writer perhaps, on a haywire vacation of his own wild devising.
Is that water leaking from your eyes, or whalebones, or tailbones, or baseballs, or mothballs, or dictionaries, or pictionaries, or barbed wire, or haywire ?