Definitions for: Loco


[adj] informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"



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


Lo"co, n. [Sp. loco insane.] (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}.


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


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.


Lo"co, n.
A locomotive. [Colloq.] --Kipling.

Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, insane, kookie, kooky, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky

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