loco
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This is a place that has driven the Three Lions absolutely loco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
"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
It was bad enough having Count Olaf acting in loco parentis and announcing himself as their father, but to consider this man her husband, even for the purposes of a play, was even more dreadful.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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Someone who prefers potatoes is getting way less for their money than someone who’s locos for Doritos.
From The Verge ● Jan. 6, 2022
And it looks like vegan chicharrones locos at El Rey.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2015
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
Reeking of oil and money, the town is attracting the usual motley con men and drifters, losers and locos.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As if the country were ever quiet, crowded as it was with locos and dogs and sabots.
From Balloons by Elizabeth Bibesco
Moreover, he is locoed and has other defects.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Reckon he’s been used mighty rough to be locoed and crippled up the way he is.”
From The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen
It's not the mirage, and I'm not locoed.
From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter
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
Oh, she's a little locoed, but barrin' that she's smarter'n a steel trap.
From Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life by Frances Parker