adj
Meaning 1
Crazy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
loco
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -əʊkəʊ
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CMU ARPABET: L OW1 K OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Intoxicated by eating locoweed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southwestern, US
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pea struck
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Meaning 4
A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: locoweed
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Short for locomotive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, informal
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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noun
Meaning 6
Short for locofoco, in its various senses.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, informal
Topics: government, politics
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verb
Meaning 7
To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 8
To render insane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, colloquial, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- it used to drive my husband balmy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: 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
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
Borrowed from Italian.
From clipping of locomotive and locofoco, both from Latin locus (“place, cause”).
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: луд (lud) — crazy
- Bulgarian: куку (kuku) — crazy
- Bulgarian: въртоглав (vǎrtoglav) — crazy
- Chinese Mandarin: 瘋 /疯 (fēng) — crazy
- Finnish: hullu — crazy
- Russian: чо́кнутый (čóknutyj) — crazy
- German: Lok — short form of locomotive
- Norwegian Bokmål: lok — short form of locomotive
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lok — short form of locomotive
- Russian: лок (lok) — short form of locomotive
- Swedish: lok — short form of locomotive