loco
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Coaches often serve in loco parentis, guiding a developing prospect not only through training and tournaments but also the awkward riddles of growing up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
"The loco pilot, on observing the herd of elephants, applied emergency brakes. However, elephants dashed with the train," he said.
From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025
On the return journey, a bolt sheared on what is now more widely known as the Penydarren loco, causing the boiler to leak.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024
She also sells tostadas topped with chow mein, elote loco and rellenitos — plantains stuffed with refried black beans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2023
And although admiring Joe Mondragon, they also thought he was a jerk—you had to be loco to ask for a kick in the ass like that.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Someone who prefers potatoes is getting way less for their money than someone who’s locos for Doritos.
From The Verge ● Jan. 6, 2022
Recommended Dishes Vegan chicharrones locos; papas bravas; shaved cauliflower; green mole with burrata; sardine tostada; octopus salad.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2015
Just after I accepted the fact that I was in love with a dish called vegan chicharrones locos, a phrase from Freud ran through my head.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2015
People around here, they call this place the casa de locos, but they don't understand.
From Time Magazine Archive
The roll was called: seven "good and true" locos answered the call.
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
Moreover, he is locoed and has other defects.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He's acting like a locoed thoroughbred that's gone outlaw," he said.
From The Real Man by Francis Lynde
He’s a pretty bird, but if he’s locoed, he’d better be dead than afoot—poor creature.”
From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson
Such a horse is said to be "locoed."
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
Ev’ry time she got where the trail runs ’longside the wagon-road, none of them locoed bull’s-eye Simpson 253 vehicles was a-passin’.
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Eleanor Gates
