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From wire +‎ -ed.

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.

    • 1980, “Totally Wired”, performed by The Fall:

      I drank a jar of coffee / And then I took some of these / And I'm totally wired

    • 1997, Bob Dylan, “Love Sick”, in Time Out of Mind:

      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

  5. (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
  6. (slang) All worked out; completely understood.

    • 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:

      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. (poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
    Synonym: back to back
  8. (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.

    • 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

equipped with wires

reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire

wired

  1. simple past and past participle of wire

wired

  1. Alternative form of werde