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noun

Loco n.

(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.

(Bot.) Any one of various leguminous plants or weeds besides Astragalus, whose herbage is poisonous to cattle, as Spiesia Lambertii, syn. Oxytropis Lambertii.

Loco n. A locomotive. (Colloq.)

verb

Loco v. t. (past & past part. locoed; pres. part. locoing) To poison with loco; to affect with the loco disease; hence (Colloq.), to render insane or mad. "The locoed novelist."

adjective

loco adj. Insane; crazy. (Originally Southwestern U. S., now slang)

adverb

Loco adv. (Mus.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.

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Etymology of 'Loco'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Loco" Quotes from Famous Books

... observed that sundry able theologians have accounted for the duration of the pains of the damned as I have just done. Johann Gerhard, a famous theologian of the Augsburg Confession (in Locis Theol., loco de Inferno, Sec. 60), brings forward amongst other arguments that the damned have still an evil will and lack the grace that could render it good. Zacharias Ursinus, a theologian of Heidelberg, who follows Calvin, having formulated ...

— Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil • G. W. Leibniz

... escribo en mi loco desvaro Sin ton ni sn, y para gusto mo.... Sin regla ni comps canta mi lira: Slo mi ardiente corazn ...

— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup

... for a gun play, Eagen," said Rathburn. "You ain't plumb loco every way. I take it you saw me makin' for this place an' followed me ...

— The Coyote - A Western Story • James Roberts

... it, which proved no more than that the critic was not one of those, for whom the trifle was written; and than all the grave exhortations to a greater reverence for the public—as if the passive page of a book, by having an epigram or doggerel tale impressed on it, instantly assumed at once loco-motive power and a sort of ubiquity, so as to flutter and buz in the ear of the public to the sore annoyance of the said mysterious personage. But what gives an additional and more ludicrous absurdity to these lamentations is the curious fact, that if in a volume of poetry ...

— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... bone, lynces. Culum oculum tergis, dum scripta hoc flumine mergis; Tunc oculi et nates, ni fallor, agent tibi grates. Vim fuge Decani, nec sit tibi cura Delani: Heu tibi si scribant, aut si tibi fercula libant, Pone loco mortis, rapis fera pocula fortis Haec tibi pauca dedi, sed consule Betty my Lady, Huic te des solae, nec egebis pharmacopolae. Haec somnians ...

— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift

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