Meanings
verbgo haywire (third-person singular simple present goes haywire, present participle going haywire, simple past went haywire, past participle gone haywire)
present singular third person goes haywire · participle present going haywire · past went haywire · participle past gone haywire
- derogatoryinformalTo become wildly confused, out of control, or mentally unbalanced.
If you feel the autocorrect on your iPhone has gone haywire recently – inexplicably correcting words such as “come” to “coke” and “winter” to “w Inter” – then you are not the only one.
2025 November 1, Aisha Down, “Ducking annoying: why has iPhone’s autocorrect function gone haywire?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Translations
Bulgarian изперквам, изперкам
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Polish nawalać, nawalić
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Cite this entry
APA
go haywire. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20haywire
MLA
“go haywire.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20haywire. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “go haywire,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20haywire.
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