wiry
wi ree
- s lean and sinewy
- a of or relating to wire
- s of hair that resembles wire in stiffness
wiry red hair
- Of all the Chinese figures the world came to know in the course of last year's tumult, the most memorable was anonymous: that wiry young man who halted a column of tanks near .
- Once on the scene, though, the Slasher a wiry, nervous guy, like Billy Bob Thornton with Tom Waits' rasp thrums like a racing engine.
- Last week Big Daddy, a former heavyweight champion of Uganda, challenged the wiry Nyerere to a boxing match to settle the fate of the invaded land.