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
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 also sells tostadas topped with chow mein, elote loco and rellenitos — plantains stuffed with refried black beans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2023
A loco moco is a mountain of rice topped with a hamburger patty topped with gravy topped with two fried eggs.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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
And it looks like vegan chicharrones locos at El Rey.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2015
Some of the locos blow up a few feet and settle back on the tracks as if heaving a big sigh.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Imagines elegantissimæ quæ multum lucis ad intelligendos doctrinæ Christianæ locos adferre possunt, collectæ à Johann Cogelero verbi divini ministro, Stetini.”
From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce
Moreover, he is locoed and has other defects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such a horse is said to be "locoed."
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
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
The old Sage Brush local is locoed 'way up toward S'liny.
From The Reclaimers by Margaret Hill McCarter
