wired
Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
Adjective
- 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.
- 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:
- Having wiry feathers.
- 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...
- Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
Synonyms: back to back
- Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
- I was dealt three of a kind, wired.
- 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.
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- simple past and past participle of wire