loco
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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
Starting with an ominous echoing sound, he begins to sing “Como Basquiat, ‘toy bien loco como Basquiat” over a simple trap beat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
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
“So your pelo loco, like clippings of grass, will not disarrange this house,” she says.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
Someone who prefers potatoes is getting way less for their money than someone who’s locos for Doritos.
From The Verge ● Jan. 6, 2022
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
Recommended Dishes Vegan chicharrones locos; papas bravas; shaved cauliflower; green mole with burrata; sardine tostada; octopus salad.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2015
People around here, they call this place the casa de locos, but they don't understand.
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 Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
Moreover, he is locoed and has other defects.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were all acquainted with the country from Running Water north, but had never been south of it; hence us having to depend on the "locoed" buffalo-hunter's directions.
From A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Siringo, Chas. A.
He’s a pretty bird, but if he’s locoed, he’d better be dead than afoot—poor creature.”
From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Emerson, Alice B.
"Crazy as a locoed cow," Red whispered across the room to Buck, who nodded sorrowfully and went into the cook shack.
From Hopalong Cassidy by Mulford, Clarence E.
Yes, men, he certainly is bumped in the bean and locoed in his arms.
From The Snow-Burner by Oyen, Henry
