wire

Related to wire: Hot Wire

wire

1. noun, slang An electronic listening device, especially one that is surreptitiously worn or installed. They made me go through a metal detector to make sure I wasn't armed or wearing a wire. Wires have been planted all over the building, so we'll be able to hear every detail of their illicit schemes.
2. verb, slang To install an electronic listening device surreptitiously in (a room, building, etc.). What if they wired this room? Let's talk outside, just to be on the safe side. We need to get someone on the inside to wire the mob boss's compound.

wired

slang Overly excited, stimulated, or energetic. Please don't give the kids any sugar. I don't want them to get wired just before bed. The shock from the accident left me feeling really wired.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

wire

verb
See live wire

wire

1. n. a spy smuggled into a place. Marlon thought Lefty was a wire.
2. tv. to install electronic eavesdropping equipment. Somebody wired the mayor’s office.
3. Go to (live) wire.

wired

1. mod. nervous; extremely alert. The guy is pretty wired because of the election.
2. and wired up mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated. Ken was so wired up he couldn’t remember his name.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • a live wire
  • be down to the wire
  • beat the dummy
  • come down to the wire
  • down to the wire
  • down-to-the-wire
  • get (one's) lines crossed
  • get (one's) wires crossed
  • get one's wires crossed
  • get your lines/wires crossed
  • get your wires crossed
  • go down to the wire
  • go, come, etc. down to the wire
  • have (one's) wires crossed
  • have wires crossed
  • high-wire act
  • Hold the phone
  • hold the wire
  • hot wire
  • live wire
  • on the wires
  • pull (one's) wire
  • pull (some/a few) wires
  • pull one’s wire
  • pull strings
  • under the wire
  • wear a wire
  • whip (one's) wire
  • whip one’s wire
  • wire
  • wire (something) into (someone or something)
  • wire ahead
  • wire back to
  • wire back to (one)
  • wire for
  • wire for (something)
  • wire in
  • wire into
  • wire together
  • wire up
  • word on the wire
References in classic literature
WATSON, COME HERE, I WANT YOU." Watson, who was at the lower end of the wire, in the basement, dropped the receiver and rushed with wild joy up three flights of stairs to tell the glad tidings to Bell.
As though the very stars in their courses were working for this young wizard with the talking wire, the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia opened its doors exactly two months after the telephone had learned to talk.
A wire had been strung from one end of the room to the other, and while Bell went to the transmitter, Dom Pedro took up the receiver and placed it to his ear.
He listened and learned what even he had not known before, that a solid metallic body could take up from the air all the countless varieties of vibrations produced by speech, and that these vibrations could be carried along a wire and reproduced exactly by a second metallic body.
Sir William Thomson and his wife ran back and forth between the two ends of the wire like a pair of delighted children.
Leaving me to go down to the cellar, he would rush wildly to the barn and begin to send me signals along his experimental wires. If I noticed any improvement in his machine, he would be delighted.
History of the Telephone
Once your hole is drilled, you can shove a glow rod through the hole, attach your wire to the eyelet at the end and pull it back through.
Fishing wire
The compressed and expanded oblong shaped wire is positioned vertically and tightly woven to manufacture the Hoyt Hi-Rise Screen.
Hoyt screen increases production rates, wear life
Intraoperatively, two 1.6 mm K-wires and an 18 gauge cerclage wire were used for the tension band construct.
Progressive migration of broken Kirschner wire into the proximal tibia following tension-band wiring technique of a patellar fracture: case report
Many new switches have small holes into which straight wire tips can be inserted to make the connections--a time-saving feature.
Do it yourself: following are tips on how to perform do-it-yourself work at your community
Non-electric, high-tensile smooth wire fencing relies on a series of tightly stretched wires with relatively small spacing intervals from about 6 to at least 52 inches off the ground (depending on animal type) to be effective.
Farm fencing: horse high, chicken tight and bull strong: with livestock fencing, there's plenty to consider: woven wire or high-tensile? electric or non-electric? Here's how to make the best choice for your animals
Flores presents three different approaches to wire sculpture: contour projects, freestanding projects and mobiles, which, in reality, range toward hanging chimes.
Wire Sculpture
TACOM LCMC wants to fix that by making the safety wire a PMCS item.
AFES safety wire maintenance
It is necessary for the surgical operator to work this very thin wire with minute force in order not to rupture the aneurysm or blood vessel by mistake.
NTN Develops Force Sensor for Cerebral Aneurysm Treatment