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gone haywire

gone haywire is the past participle 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 gone haywire

What is gone haywire the past participle of?
Gone haywire is the past participle of go haywire.

Words near gone haywire in the dictionary

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

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