Made up of 2 Chinese characters, this Hong Kong created vocabulary does not exist in the official Chinese language (only in Hong Kong) !
黐 = stick together, 線 = wire
Thus, 黐線
= having some wires sticking together
= having a short-circuit in an electric circuit
= having a short-circuit in a person’s brain (metaphorically)
= crazy or mad
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