wired
adjUK /waɪəd/ · US /waɪɹd/
Etymology From wire + -ed.
9 senses
- 1Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source…
- 2Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- 3Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- 4Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
- 5Having wiry feathers.
- 6All worked out; completely understood.
- 7Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one…
- 8Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven…
- 9Connected to the Internet; online.
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
Slang 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 wired1980, “Totally Wired”, performed by The Fall:
2 more examples
- I'm walking through streets that are dead / Walking, walking with you in my head / My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired1997, Bob Dylan, “Love Sick”, in Time Out of Mind:
- Too wired to die, too under fire to think2016, Doseone, “Enter the Gungeon”, in Enter the Gungeon OST:
6
Slang 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 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
Card games, Poker Slang Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
8
Card games, Poker Slang Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
- I was dealt three of a kind, wired.
9
Informal, Of people or communities 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: challenges facing the city-state, page 247:
- 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:
- Synonyms
- corded
- Antonyms
- wireless
- Derived terms
- autowired, hardwired, hot-wired, non-wired, razor-wired, unwired, wired to the gills