Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A wire carrying electric current.
- n. Informal A vivacious, alert, or energetic person.
Wiktionary
- n. electricity An electrical wire through which there is a flow of electrical current.
- n. idiomatic An especially energetic, alert, or vivacious person.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Elec.), (Fig.) a person who is unusually active, alert, or aggressive.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an alert and energetic person
Examples
“Naghma would hand-wrap the live wire around the base of the lightbulb then to make a circuit.”
“He's hot an 'cold at the one time, a live wire in an ice-chest.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘live wire’.
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
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gangster
random gangster lingo and street slang with extra absurdities.
( open list, randomness )
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Rose varieties
Rosarians have names for thousands of varieties of roses.
holy toledo, gourmet popcorn, apple jack, barbara bush, burning desire, hot tamale, tradescant, sweet surrender, sweet chariot, pinocchio, oyster pearl, olympiad and 309 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for live wire.
marky "he's a real live wire if ya know what I mean" Feb 20, 2010