学个词 haywire

adverb / adjective,  混乱的，乱七八糟的；疯狂的；  故障的，出毛病的; 失控地；

Definition of haywire

　　1: being out of order or having gone wrong

　　the radio went haywire

　　2: emotionally or mentally upset or out of control : CRAZY

　　is going haywire with grief

Synonyms & Antonyms for haywire

　　Synonyms - balmy, barmy [chiefly British], bats, batty, bedlam, bonkers, brainsick, bughouse [slang], certifiable

　　Antonyms - balanced, compos mentis, sane, sound, uncrazy

Did you know?

　　The noun haywire refers to a type of wire once used in baling hay and sometimes for makeshift repairs. This hurried and temporary use of haywire gave rise to the adjective (and sometimes adverb) haywire. When the adjective was first used in the early 20th century, it was primarily found in the phrase “haywire outfit,” which originally denoted a poorly equipped group of loggers, and then anything that was flimsy or patched together. This led to a “hastily patched-up” sense, which in turn gave us the now-common meaning, “being out of order or having gone wrong.” The “crazy” sense of haywire may have been suggested by the tendency of the relatively weak and rust-prone wire to fail at inopportune times, or to get tangled around legs, or possibly to the disorderly appearance of the temporary repair jobs for which it was used.

Examples of haywire in a Sentence

　　1 The reason the corals risk starvation is that the algae’s biology starts to go haywire at those temperatures.

　　— Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 14 May 2020

　　2 The beat, though played on a physical drum kit, feels like one of later Kraftwerk’s methodical midtempo pulses — until things go psychedelically haywire.

　　— Jon Pareles, New York Times, 7 May 2020

　　3 Companies and consumers flooded U.S. banks with a record $1 trillion of deposits in the first quarter, when markets went haywire and America went dark to stop the spread of the new coronavirus.

　　— David Benoit, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2020