Loco

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To poison with the loco-weed or crazy-weed.
  • noun. Same as loco-weed.
  • noun. A disease of animals resulting from eating loco-weeds.
  • Derived from loco-weed.
  • noun. An abbreviated form of locomotive.
  • Hence To make crazy or in any way eccentric: as, he's plumb locoed.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adverb. A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
  • noun. A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.
  • noun. Any one of various leguminous plants or weeds besides Astragalus, whose herbage is poisonous to cattle, as Spiesia Lambertii, syn. Oxytropis Lambertii.
  • noun. A locomotive.
  • transitive verb. To poison with loco; to affect with the loco disease; hence (Colloq.), to render insane or mad.
  • adjective. Insane; crazy.
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  • adverb. A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
  • noun. locomotive
  • adjective. crazy
  • adjective. intoxicated by eating locoweed
  • noun. certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
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  • adjective. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
  • Word Usage
    "In the words _pulsi loco cedere ausi erant_, _loco_ is to be joined, as Dietsch observes, with cedere_, not, as Kritzius puts it, with _pulsi_."
    cross-reference
    loco acid  
    Equivalent
    insane  
    Form
    locoed  locoing  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cocoa  Koko  Orinoco  cocco  cocoa  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    June  b  creditum  dancing  detail  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    loco weed  
    verb-form
    locoed  locoing  locos