wired
Adjective
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Adjective
wired
- Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
- Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
- After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.
- (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
- (poker slang) Being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down.
- (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
- I was dealt three of a kind, wired.
- (informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
- 2002, Derek Da Cunha, Singapore in the new millennium: challenges facing the city-state (page 247)
- In typical Singaporean style, however, once the decision to get wired was made, the various agencies moved to ensure the Internet diffused very quickly.
- 2004, Cincinnati Magazine (volume 38, number 3, December 2004, page 44)
- 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 […]
- 2002, Derek Da Cunha, Singapore in the new millennium: challenges facing the city-state (page 247)
- (equipped with a connection wire) corded
- French: branché
- German: kabelgebunden
- Spanish: conectado, cableado, alámbrico
- French: sur écoute
- German: verwanzt
- French: attaché
- German: verdrahted
- French: surexcité
- German: aufgedreht
- Spanish: enchufado (slang)
- Simple past tense and past participle of wire
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