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
Near Pike Place Market is Musubi Kai, doing Pacific Island rice bowls like poke and loco moco along with a dozen riffs on Spam musubi.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024
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
A loco moco is a mountain of rice topped with a hamburger patty topped with gravy topped with two fried eggs.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
Someone who prefers potatoes is getting way less for their money than someone who’s locos for Doritos.
From The Verge ● Jan. 6, 2022
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
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
It doesn't matter if you're a goofy-foot or a regular-foot, if you've recently been married, are a loner, or are a family man-you're insane in the membrane, and olas locos is what you're after.
From Time Magazine Archive
Be sure his wife and her allies left him no locos pœnitentice.
From For the Cause by Stanley J. Weyman
Moreover, he is locoed and has other defects.
From Time Magazine Archive
I’ve got a little shack down on the Rabbit-Ear—which is a crick, for all the name some locoed ignoramus give it.
From The Ranchman by Charles Alden Seltzer
"But what did you say about it?" demanded Fidu, "he looked as locoed as a lop-eared logarithm."
From The Book of Gud by Harold Hersey
"He's acting like a locoed thoroughbred that's gone outlaw," he said.
From The Real Man by Francis Lynde
Yuh've made many things plain to me that I was too locoed to see before.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
