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goes haywire

goes haywire is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go haywire.

Meaning of go haywire

Verb

go haywire (third-person singular simple present goes haywire, present participle going haywire, simple past went haywire, past participle gone haywire)

  1. (derogatory, informal) To become wildly confused, out of control, or mentally unbalanced.
    • If you feel the autocorrect on your iPhone has gone haywire recently – inexplicably correcting words such as “come” to “coke” and “winter” to “w Inter” – then you are not the only one.2025 November 1, Aisha Down, “Ducking annoying: why has iPhone’s autocorrect function gone haywire?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about goes haywire

What is goes haywire the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Goes haywire is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go haywire.

Words near goes haywire in the dictionary

  1. goes ham
  2. goes hand in hand
  3. goes hang
  4. goes hard
  5. goes hard in the paint
  6. goes haywire
  7. goes Hollywood
  8. goes home
  9. goes horribly right
  10. goes hostile
  11. goes hungry

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