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Chris -- 2018-04-11
‘Haywire’ means, roughly, ‘out of control’ and originates from the springy, poor quality wire used to tie bales of hay. If you didn’t know that, I suppose it is possible you might imagine the term was a contraction of, “Hey! why ….?” or something along those lines.
I’m not convinced. I can find only two examples too:
Money laundering is going heywhy in some of the Pacific Island countries and SI situation is a good recipie for such deals. ...
forum.ktaisia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4949&sid=86f6cc761b909f0ecc6637f2cd771aeb – 56k – Supplemental Result – Cached –
So while you are smiling at other people’s misfortune and pleasuring yourself to latino women online that lust of yours can lead you heywhy. ...
www.mashada.com/forums/index.php?az=pri … c_id=42032 – 13k – Supplemental Result – Cached -
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