wired

Wired describes someone who is wearing a device to record what is being said around them.

(adjective)

An example of someone wired is an informant for the FBI.

The definition of wired is very nervous, or having a lot of energy, or connected to the Internet or cable.

(adjective)

  1. An example of someone being wired is a person who had five cups of coffee.
  2. An example of something wired is a computer that's connected to a network with a cable.

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See wired in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

  1. Informal wearing or carrying, esp. surreptitiously, a microphone or recording device
  2. Slang extremely excited, nervous, disoriented, etc.
  3. Slang under the influence of a drug
  4. furnished or equipped with wiring, as for electrical service or computerization
  5. connected to a computer network, cable TV system, etc.

See wired in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
  1. Equipped with a system of wires, as for electric, telephone, cable television, or computer network connections.
  2. Slang Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices: a wired hotel room.
  3. a. Reinforced or supported by wires.
    b. Tied or bound up with wire: wired bundles of newspaper.
  4. Slang Having numerous influential connections, as with high-ranking members of an organization.
  5. Slang Very stimulated or excited, as from a stimulant or a rush of adrenaline.

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