wired

From wire +‎ -ed.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /waɪɹd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /waɪəd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d

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. (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.

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

5. (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
6. (poker slang) Being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down.

   Synonym: back to back

7. (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.

   I was dealt three of a kind, wired.

8. (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 December, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 38, number 3, 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 […]

• (equipped with a connection wire): corded

• wireless

wired

1. simple past tense and past participle of wire

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

• Dwire, WEIRD, weird, weïrd, wider, wierd, wride, wried