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Loco
Definitions
- 1 Crazy. colloquial
"It's Cottontail Smith, and he's gone plumb loco!"
- 2 Intoxicated by eating locoweed. Southwestern, US
- 1 informal or slang terms for mentally irregular wordnet
- 1 A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower. not-comparable
- 1 A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
- 2 A locomotive. informal
"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 him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him."
- 1 To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism. transitive
- 2 To render insane. broadly, colloquial, transitive
"They say that he is locoed. The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds."
Etymology
From Italian.
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
Clipping of locomotive.
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