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over-the-wire

over-the-wire is the alternative form of over the wire.

Meaning of over the wire

Adjective

over the wire (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Of communications, information, data, or signals electronically transmitted from one location to another.

Forms of over-the-wire

comparativemore over-the-wire
superlativemost over-the-wire

Questions about over-the-wire

What is over-the-wire the alternative form of?
Over-the-wire is the alternative form of over the wire.

Words near over-the-wire in the dictionary

  1. over-the-road
  2. over-the-shoulder boulder holder
  3. over-the-shoulder boulder holders
  4. over-the-top
  5. over-the-topness
  6. over-the-wire
  7. over-things
  8. over-time
  9. over-timed
  10. over-timer
  11. over-timers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: over-the-wire (page history and authors); over the wire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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