Loco

Quick meaning: Loco is an adverb meaning (music) A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

Meaning

(music) A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

More Meanings

1. (colloquial) Crazy.
2. (Southwestern US) Intoxicated by eating locoweed.
3. A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
4. (transitive) To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
5. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To render insane.
6. (rail transport, informal) Short for locomotive.
7. (historical US politics, informal) Short for locofoco, in its various senses.

Example Sentences

It's Cottontail Smith, and he's gone plumb loco!

Holla in New York, fo'sho they'll tell you I'm loco

You know, I’m a little loco. Kinda crazy, zany guy.

Who you trying to get crazy with ése? Don't you know I'm loco?

Word Forms

• locos
• locoes
• locoing
• locoed

Synonyms for loco

Depending on context, synonyms include locoweed, balmy, loony, insane, wacky, dotty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crackers, wacky, cracked, kooky, batty, insane.

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