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
On the return journey, a bolt sheared on what is now more widely known as the Penydarren loco, causing the boiler to leak.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024
She also sells tostadas topped with chow mein, elote loco and rellenitos — plantains stuffed with refried black beans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2023
“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
Recommended Dishes Vegan chicharrones locos; papas bravas; shaved cauliflower; green mole with burrata; sardine tostada; octopus salad.
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
People around here, they call this place the casa de locos, but they don't understand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course we stop to have a look at the engine, one of those splendid Reading locos with the three great driving wheels.
From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Morley, Christopher
Moreover, he is locoed and has other defects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, yes," agreed the girl, "there's not a doubt but that she's plumb locoed!
From Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life by Parker, Frances
Such a horse is said to be "locoed."
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
Yes, men, he certainly is bumped in the bean and locoed in his arms.
From The Snow-Burner by Oyen, Henry
“Better, I see,” I observed, “but heavens you were locoed this morning! talking about the resurrection, the quaking earth, and the dead rolling out from their graves!”
From Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew by McReynolds, Robert
