loco

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having…

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

2. 2

   Crazy.

   • It's Cottontail Smith, and he's gone plumb loco!
   • Going loco down in Acapulco / If you stay too long / Yes, you'll be going loco down in Acapulco / The magic down there is so strong
   • Who you trying to get crazy with ése? Don't you know I'm loco?
3. 3

   Intoxicated by eating locoweed.

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   1. 4

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

   2. 5

      To poison with the loco plant

      To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.

   3. 6

      To render insane.

      • They say that he is locoed. The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds.
   4. 7

      Short for locomotive.

      • Small boys in 1963 could have traction engines with real steam coming out of the funnel, and Old Western locos had flashing lights, hooters and cow-pushers.
   5. 8

      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.

The neighborhood

• neighborlocoism
• neighborin loco
• neighborin loco parentis
• neighborin loco parentum