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. slangVery excited, overstimulated; high-strung.

   After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.

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   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

   Too wired to die, too under fire to think

   2016, Doseone, “Enter the Gungeon”, in Enter the Gungeon OST

5. biologyHaving wiry feathers.
6. slangAll worked out; completely understood.

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   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 wired, it's just like... riding waves back in the U.S.A., except you aren't. You're in Africa.

   1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer

7. slangcard gamesBeing a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.

   Synonyms: back to back

8. slangcard gamesBeing three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.

   I was dealt three of a kind, wired.

9. informalConnected 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: challenges facing the city-state, page 247

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   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 38, number 3, page 44

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of wire