loco
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This is a place that has driven the Three Lions absolutely loco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
"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
Starting with an ominous echoing sound, he begins to sing “Como Basquiat, ‘toy bien loco como Basquiat” over a simple trap beat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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
“Are you familiar with the Latin term ‘in loco parentis’?” he asked.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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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
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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
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Reckon he’s been used mighty rough to be locoed and crippled up the way he is.”
From The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen
You will see a locoed mule standing out on the shadowless plain with not a living, moving thing in his vicinity.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
Reckon I must ’a’ been locoed, or, like ’nuff that ar ole hermutt’s done played a trick on me.
From Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls by Carrie L. Marshall
"I knowed he was crazy," he said, "but I didn't know he was as plumb locoed as that."
From Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life by Frances Parker