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
Should you eat the papas bravas the same night as the chicharrones locos, you may wish they did not both depend on the pineapple hot sauce and the cashew cream.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2015
Some of the locos blow up a few feet and settle back on the tracks as if heaving a big sigh.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Imagines elegantissimæ quæ multum lucis ad intelligendos doctrinæ Christianæ locos adferre possunt, collectæ à Johann Cogelero verbi divini ministro, Stetini.”
From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce
Moreover, he is locoed and has other defects.
From Time Magazine Archive
An’ that locoed ol’ bum running ’round loose with it.
From The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen
Once more, I guess, I was locoed for the minute.
From The Real Man by Francis Lynde
"The old man is a bit locoed on this rebellion theory," mused Herbert as he went along.
From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by W. H. P. (William Henry Pope) Jarvis
Oh, yes," agreed the girl, "there's not a doubt but that she's plumb locoed!
From Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life by Frances Parker
