wired

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English

Etymology

From wire +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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 (lyrics and music), “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 (lyrics and music), “Enter the Gungeon”, in Enter the Gungeon OST:
      Too wired to die, too under fire to think
  5. (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
  6. (poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
    Synonym: back to back
  7. (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
    I was dealt three of a kind, wired.
  8. (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

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Verb

wired

  1. simple past and past participle of wire

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Noun

wired

  1. Alternative form of werde
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