(slang)restimulate a pc so much that he is wrapped up in his case, resulting in severe upset and dispersal. A variation of wrap around a telegraphpole, from the Western US where a tangled-up man in a confused condition was likened to a person, horse or cow who had run into a telegraphpole and gotten wrapped around it. It infers the situation or person needs to be untangled and straightened out. —AcademyLevel I Glossary - Approved November 1990