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"goes haywire" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
It's a slang term that means to malfunction or become erratic. You can use it in casual conversations or informal written works. For example: My computer goes haywire every time I open this program.
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Go haywire.
When something goes haywire, it is completely out of control and erratic.
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Every body goes haywire.
But the plan goes haywire.
He goes haywire with a fire extinguisher.
A Golden Arches campaign goes haywire on Twitter.
When Acosta edges too close to the machine, it goes haywire, churning furiously at his impertinence.
Well, the problem with introducing more technology into the process is that technology sometimes goes haywire.
Unless something goes haywire, the 2014 Texas primaries will be held in March.
But in narcoleptics, the hormone is largely absent, and the system goes haywire.
Only if the expectedly ordinary goes haywire do you notice the offstage apparatus.
If a robot goes haywire, he said, "we can just take out the batteries".
Of two Huebner brothers from Athens, Ga., Smith goes to war while Sam goes haywire.
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