1. (

• haywire

) wire for tying up bales of hay ;

1. (

• balmy ,
• barmy ,
• bats ,
• batty ,
• bonkers ,
• buggy ,
• cracked ,
• crackers ,
• daft ,
• dotty ,
• fruity ,
• haywire ,
• kooky ,
• kookie ,
• loco ,
• loony ,
• loopy ,
• nuts ,
• nutty ,
• round_the_bend ,
• around_the_bend ,
• wacky ,
• whacky

) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" ;

2. (

• amiss ,
• awry ,
• haywire ,
• wrong

) not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" ;