Loco

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Loco \Lo"co\, n.
     A locomotive. [Colloq.] --Kipling.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  loco \lo"co\, a. [Sp. loco insane.]
     Insane; crazy. [Originally Southwestern U. S., now slang]
     [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Loco \Lo"co\, adv. [It.] (Mus.)
     A direction in written or printed music to return to the
     proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Loco \Lo"co\, n. [Sp. loco insane.]
     1. (Bot.) 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}.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Bot.) Any one of various leguminous plants or weeds
        besides {Astragalus}, whose herbage is poisonous to
        cattle, as {Spiesia Lambertii}, syn. {Oxytropis
        Lambertii}.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Loco \Lo"co\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Locoed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Locoing}.]
     To poison with loco; to affect with the loco disease; hence
     (Colloq.), to render insane or mad. "The locoed novelist."
     --W. D. Howells.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  loco
       adj : informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to
             drive my husband balmy" [syn: {balmy}, {barmy}, {bats},
              {batty}, {bonkers}, {buggy}, {cracked}, {crackers}, {daft},
              {dotty}, {fruity}, {haywire}, {kooky}, {kookie}, {loony},
              {loopy}, {nuts}, {nutty}, {round the bend}, {around
             the bend}, {wacky}, {whacky}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "loco":
     abnormal, bereft of reason, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked,
     crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason,
     deranged, disoriented, distraught, flighty, fruity, hallucinated,
     insane, irrational, lunatic, mad, maddened, maniac, manic, mazed,
     mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mindless, moon-struck,
     non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, nuts, odd,
     of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, reasonless, senseless, sick,
     stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, touched,
     unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wandering,
     witless
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Loco, OK (town, FIPS 43450)
    Location: 34.32953 N, 97.68022 W
    Population (1990): 160 (82 housing units)
    Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 73442

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Loco, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
     Population (2000):    150
     Housing Units (2000): 82
     Land area (2000):     0.262489 sq. miles (0.679844 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.262489 sq. miles (0.679844 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            43450
     Located within:       Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
     Location:             34.328533 N, 97.680538 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     73442
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Loco, OK
      Loco