loco

8 definitions found

loco - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Loco \Lo"co\, n.
     A locomotive. [Colloq.] --Kipling.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

  loco \lo"co\, a. [Sp. loco insane.]
     Insane; crazy. [Originally Southwestern U. S., now slang]
     [PJC]

  Loco \Lo"co\, adv. [It.] (Mus.)
     A direction in written or printed music to return to the
     proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
     [1913 Webster]

  Loco \Lo"co\, n. [Sp. loco insane.]
     1. (Bot.) A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the
        Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses
        and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also
        given vaguely to several other species of the same genus.
        Called also loco weed.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Bot.) Any one of various leguminous plants or weeds
        besides Astragalus, whose herbage is poisonous to
        cattle, as Spiesia Lambertii, syn. Oxytropis  Lambertii
        .
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

  Loco \Lo"co\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Locoed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Locoing.]
     To poison with loco; to affect with the loco disease; hence
     (Colloq.), to render insane or mad. "The locoed novelist."
     --W. D. Howells.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

loco - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  loco
      adj 1: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used
             to drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy,
             bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked,
             crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire,
             kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts,
             nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky,
             whacky]

loco - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Loco, OK (town, FIPS 43450)
    Location: 34.32953 N, 97.68022 W
    Population (1990): 160 (82 housing units)
    Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 73442

loco - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "loco":
     abnormal, bereft of reason, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked,
     crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason,
     deranged, disoriented, distraught, flighty, fruity, hallucinated,
     insane, irrational, lunatic, mad, maddened, maniac, manic, mazed,
     mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mindless, moon-struck,
     non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, nuts, odd,
     of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, reasonless, senseless, sick,
     stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, touched,
     unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wandering,
     witless