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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: From the use of hay-tying wire for quick repairs

haywire

 adjective
     
hay‧wire

go haywire

informal to start working in completely the wrong way:
My computer's gone haywire.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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