wired

adjective

1. 1

   Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.

2. 2

   Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.

3. 3

   Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.

4. 4

   slangVery 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

   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

   Too wired to die, too under fire to think

5. 5

   Having wiry feathers.

6. 6

   slangAll 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.

7. 7

   slangBeing a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.

8. 8

   slangBeing three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.

   I was dealt three of a kind, wired.

9. 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.

   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[…]

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of wiresimple past and past participle of wire

Forms

comparative

more wired

superlative

most wired