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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.

See:

• a live wire
• beat the dummy
• down to the wire
• down-to-the-wire
• get (one's) wires crossed
• get lines crossed
• get one's wires crossed
• have wires crossed
• high-wire act
• Hold the phone
• hot wire
• live wire
• on the wires
• pull (some/a few) wires
• pull one’s wire
• pull strings
• under the wire
• whip one’s wire
• wire
• wire ahead
• wire back to
• wire for
• wire in
• wire into
• wire together
• wire up
• word on the wire