loco

Coaches often serve in loco parentis, guiding a developing prospect not only through training and tournaments but also the awkward riddles of growing up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

"The loco pilot, on observing the herd of elephants, applied emergency brakes. However, elephants dashed with the train," he said.

From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025

It’s been bien loco, like I say in the song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025

He was also asked about his understanding of the term "in loco parentis", namely having responsibilities for children in the absence of their parents or guardians.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2024

“She’s a judge, and she’d just start babbling about in loco parentis like Mr. Poe.”

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

Someone who prefers potatoes is getting way less for their money than someone who’s locos for Doritos.

From The Verge ● Jan. 6, 2022

Just after I accepted the fact that I was in love with a dish called vegan chicharrones locos, a phrase from Freud ran through my head.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2015

Should you eat the papas bravas the same night as the chicharrones locos, you may wish they did not both depend on the pineapple hot sauce and the cashew cream.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2015

Thanks to the cold Humboldt Current, Chile has the world's most unusual seafood: erizos, giant sea urchins; picoroccos, beaked shell fish that taste like crab; and the giant abalones known as locos.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cicero expresses himself plainly on this subject: “Qui multa voluerit meminisse, multa sibi loca comparet: oportet multos comparare locos, ut in multis locis multas imagines collocemus.”

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

Moreover, he is locoed and has other defects.

From Time Magazine Archive

He uttered his mind again concerning the work of Sydenham, the master Teevan had prescribed, asserting that unsuspecting toiler to be hopelessly "locoed" in the matter of color.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson

"He's acting like a locoed thoroughbred that's gone outlaw," he said.

From The Real Man by Francis Lynde

You will see a locoed mule standing out on the shadowless plain with not a living, moving thing in his vicinity.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

“He acts like he was locoed to me,” declared Felix Burns, the horse wrangler, who, much to his disgust, had to “act in them fool pitchers” as well as handle the stock for the outfit.

From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson