Loco meaning

lōkō
locoed loco locos
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(music) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
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(colloquial) Crazy.
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(western US) Intoxicated by eating locoweed.
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(botany) Certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
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(rail transport, informal) Locomotive.
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Mentally deranged; crazy.
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To poison with locoweed.
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To cause to be mentally deranged; craze.
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At the pitch written. Used chiefly as a direction.
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To poison with locoweed.
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To craze.
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Crazy; demented.
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From place to place.

Locomotion.

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To poison with locoweed.
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To cause to be mentally deranged; craze.
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Origin of loco

  • < L loco, abl. of locus, place: see local

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

  • Spanish crazy possibly from Arabic lawqā’ foolish feminine sing. of ’alwaq from lāqa to soften lwq in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Italian loco from Latin locō ablative of locus place

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Spanish loco (“insane, crazy"), from loco (“loose"). From Arabic Ù„ÙŽÙˆÙŽÙ‚ (láwaq, “foolishness") or Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukos, “clear").

    From Wiktionary

  • Abbreviation of locomotive.

    From Wiktionary

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Loco Sentence Examples

  • In the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, Basilides saw the proof of naturam sine radice et sine loco rebus supervenientem (Acta Archelai).

  • 6 seq., the most full is Tholuck's Disputatio christologica de loco Pauli, Phil.

  • According to his own statement in De vetere testamento, written about loco, he had at that period translated the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, Kings, Job, Esther, Judith and the Maccabees.

  • If the motion were that of a body at white heat, or say a temperature of loco, the velocity of mean square would be 39co metres per second and the apparent width of the band would be doubled.

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