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loco

[loh-koh] / ˈloʊ koʊ /


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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

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

It was bad enough having Count Olaf acting in loco parentis and announcing himself as their father, but to consider this man her husband, even for the purposes of a play, was even more dreadful.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

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

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

Splendid things, the big Reading locos; when they halt they pant so cheerfully and noisily, like huge dogs, much louder than any other engines.

From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Christopher Morley

Moreover, he is locoed and has other defects.

From Time Magazine Archive

We mustn't mind if the Chief does act a little locoed, ma'am.

From The Trail of Conflict by Emilie Baker Loring

Oh, she's a little locoed, but barrin' that she's smarter'n a steel trap.

From Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life by Frances Parker

We were all acquainted with the country from Running Water north, but had never been south of it; hence us having to depend on the "locoed" buffalo-hunter's directions.

From A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Chas. A. Siringo

"Crazy as a locoed cow," Red whispered across the room to Buck, who nodded sorrowfully and went into the cook shack.

From Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford


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