wired

   1. drunk or under the influence of narcotics

   Of the same tendency as LIT and more of drugtaking than alcohol:

    'Do you have to go to bed?' he asked. 'I'm wired. I can't sleep.' (Robbins, 1981, after taking drugs)

   2. (up) subject to clandestine surveillance

   This espionage and police jargon has survived the introduction of devices which are almost always wire-less:

    Even the damn cats are wired, no exaggeration, (le Carré, 1980)

    ... the defendant remained unaware... that their interrogators were... 'wired up'. (Private Eye, March, 1981)

   An investigator or person seeking evidence clandestinely may be said to wear a wire:

    Because of that [Linda Tripp] decided to wear a wire for Ken Starr? (Sunday Telegraph, 4 October 1998)

   A wireman is an expert in the technology:

    What we need is a first-class wireman, somebody who can do it right. The apartment. The phone. (Diehl, 1978)