loco

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/

Adverb

loco (not comparable)

1. (music) A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

Adjective

loco

1. (colloquial) Crazy.
   • 2003 December 15, The New Yorker, page 56:

     You know, I’m a little loco. Kinda crazy, zany guy.

2. (Southwestern US) Intoxicated by eating locoweed.

Synonyms

• pea struck

Translations

• Russian: чо́кнутый

Noun

loco (plural locos)

1. A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.

   Synonyms: locoweed

Verb

loco (locos, present participle locoing; past and past participle locoed)

1. (transitive) To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
2. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To render insane.
   • W. D. Howells

     the locoed novelist

Related terms

• locoism

Noun

loco (plural locos)

1. (rail transport, informal) A locomotive.

Translations

• German: Lok
• Russian: лок

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