live wire

live wire

noun

Definition of LIVE WIRE

: an alert, active, or aggressive person

— live–wire adjective

Examples of LIVE WIRE

1. She's a real live wire.
2. <the babysitter will have her hands full with those two little live wires>

First Known Use of LIVE WIRE

1903

Related to LIVE WIRE

Synonyms: dynamo, fireball, pistol

Related Words: bootstrapper, go-ahead, go-getter, highflier (or highflyer), hummer, hustler, powerhouse, rustler, self-starter; achiever, comer, dasher; doer, enterpriser

Near Antonyms: dawdler, idler, loafer, lounger, trifler; clock-watcher, goldbrick, shirker, slacker; couch potato, deadbeat, do-nothing, drone, layabout, lazybones, slouch, slug, slugabed, sluggard; dallier, laggard, lingerer, loiterer, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud

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Rhymes with LIVE WIRE

attire, backfire, bemire, catch fire, cross fire, denier, desire, entire, for hire, fox fire, Greek fire, grey friar, hang fire, hellfire, on fire, prior, rimfire, sapphire, sea fire, snow tire, town crier, trip wire, umpire, watch fire, white friar