0 to stop working, often in a way that is very sudden and noticeable:
The television's gone haywire.
The project makes the case for sophisticated planning in place of 'an opaque system of decentralisation that looks more like cell division gone haywire'.
Leslie responds that experiences in lawless, haywire worlds are among the many experiences not worth having.
If there are infinitely many divine minds, there will be many divine minds thinking of worlds that are just like ours up till now, but which then subsequently go haywire.
If we based our system of public finance on this kind of principle, the thing would go haywire.
In the years immediately after the war it did fairly well, until the planners went haywire in 1947.
The timetable has gone completely haywire and very little is happening as a consequence.
We have nationalised industries, in which commercial economics seem to have gone haywire.
The market economy goes haywire and shows up the false situation which exists when there is a monopoly and any price can be demanded.
