Definitions for Loco

Loco lo·co

Spelling: [loh-koh]
IPA: /ˈloʊ koʊ/

Loco is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in Loco (cloo).

Definitions for Loco

noun

  1. locoweed.
  2. Slang. an insane person; maniac.
  3. Veterinary Pathology. locoism.

adverb

  1. in place; in the proper place.
  2. in the place or role of a parent.
  3. loc. cit.
  4. loc. primo cit.
  5. l.s.c.
  6. in one's own or rightful place.

adjective

  1. Slang. out of one's mind; insane; crazy.

verb (used with object)

  1. to poison with locoweed.
  2. Slang. to cause to be insane or crazy.

Origin of Loco

1835-45, Americanism; Spanish: insane

Examples for Loco

The whole valley is on to my case of loco, and I'm due at the north pole.

Apparently the furious run had worked off the effect of the loco weed.

Post-exilic, according to most critics (Driver's Introduction, in loco).

I must have been loco to call you a coward—I wish I'd half your courage!

But there is a time when parents must be parents; and the War Office was in this case in loco parentis.

The latter is found in Thucydides and Xenophon: see Meyer in loco.

Cameron is in essence assuming the role of in loco parentis in relation to almost every household in Britain.

They were perplexed at his 'flightiness'—wanted him to enter the loco.

I esteem a pawnbroker in the place of an uncle: that is, in loco.

(loco, place) A locomotive is that which can move cars from place to place.

Word Value for Loco
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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