What does live wire mean?

live wire means "an alert and energetic person".

What is another word for live wire?

Close synonyms include eager beaver, busy bee, sharpie, sharpy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is live wire a common word?

live wire is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

live wire — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
an alert and energetic person
Synonymseager beaver busy bee sharpie sharpy
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