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loco¹
- /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/ UK
Rhymes with -əʊkəʊ
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian.
adverb
- A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
loco²
- /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/ UK
Rhymes with -əʊkəʊ
Where it comes from
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
adjective more loco · most loco
- Crazy. It's Cottontail Smith, and he's gone plumb loco!
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Intoxicated by eating locoweed.
Similar: pea struck
noun locos · locoes
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A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
Similar: locoweed
verb locos · locoing · locoed
- To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
- To render insane. They say that he is locoed. The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds.
loco³
- /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/ UK
Rhymes with -əʊkəʊ
Where it comes from
From clipping of locomotive and locofoco, both from Latin locus (“place, cause”).
noun locos
- Short for locomotive A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run
- Short for locofoco, in its various senses. Like his fellow Young American locos, Thomas Dorr was an early and vigorous advocate of global republicanism and William Leggett’s locofocoism, though this point is little-known and less emphasized in histories of the Dorr Rebellion.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: loopy, crackers, wacky, cracked, kooky, batty, insane, bats, loony, bonkers, dotty, barmy, balmy, buggy, daft, nuts
Translations
Talk about this word "loco." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/loco. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. loco. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/loco "loco." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/loco.Cite this
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