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loco

[loh-koh] / ˈloʊ koʊ /


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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

Near Pike Place Market is Musubi Kai, doing Pacific Island rice bowls like poke and loco moco along with a dozen riffs on Spam musubi.

From Seattle Times May 4, 2024

They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf’s evil in loco parentis ways.

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

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

Reeking of oil and money, the town is attracting the usual motley con men and drifters, losers and locos.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those locos were worth to us more than a king's ransom!

From With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Lowry, Edward P.

Moreover, he is locoed and has other defects.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

"I knowed he was crazy," he said, "but I didn't know he was as plumb locoed as that."

From Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life by Parker, Frances

The rancher said I was locoed, but he went about his business after that.

From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

"But what did you say about it?" demanded Fidu, "he looked as locoed as a lop-eared logarithm."

From The Book of Gud by Hersey, Harold




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