wired

Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.

Adjective

  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. Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
    • After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.
    • I drank a jar of coffee / And then I took some of these / And I'm totally wired - 1980, “Totally Wired”, performed by The Fall:
    • 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 - 1997, Bob Dylan, “Love Sick”, in Time Out of Mind:
  5. Having wiry feathers.
  6. All worked out; completely understood.
    • 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...
  7. Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.

    Synonyms: back to back

  8. Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
    • I was dealt three of a kind, wired.
  9. Connected to the Internet; online.
    • In typical Singaporean style, however, once the decision to get wired was made, the various agencies moved to ensure the Internet diffused very quickly. - 2002, Derek Da Cunha, Singapore in the new millennium:...
    • 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[…] - 2004 December, Cincinnati Magazine, volume...

Origin

Etymology tree English wire English -ed English wired From wire + -ed.

Forms

more wired most wired

Synonyms

corded

Antonyms

wireless

Derived

autowired hardwired hot-wired non-wired razor-wired unwired

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of wire