What does go haywire mean?

go haywire

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English

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Derogatory; Informal

"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."

goes haywire (present, singular) going haywire (participle, present) went haywire (past) gone haywire (participle, past)

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