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
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
“Are you familiar with the Latin term ‘in loco parentis’?” he asked.
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
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
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
When people get locoed this way, the only thing is to humor them and give them a chance to rest satisfied in something––no matter what, much,––only so 187 they are not hectored.
From The Eye of Dread by Payne Erskine
Reckon I must ’a’ been locoed, or, like ’nuff that ar ole hermutt’s done played a trick on me.
From Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls by Carrie L. Marshall
He considered the crowd all, as he expressed it, "plum' locoed"; but his passions, never of the most peaceful, were rising.
From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White
"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 Clarence E. Mulford
