loco

Plural: locoes, locos

Adjective Satellite

• informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

Adv

• A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

Adj

• Crazy.
• Intoxicated by eating locoweed.

Noun

• Short for locoweed, a plant poisonous to livestock.
• A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
• A locomotive.

Verb

Verb Forms: locoed, locoing, locos

• To poison livestock by feeding them locoweed.
• To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
• To render insane.

Examples

• A quick LOCO play helped clear his rack and set up for a bigger word.
• He tried to loco his opponent’s strategy by playing a confusing, unfamiliar word.

Synonyms

around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky, locoweed, pea struck

Related Words

in loco, in loco parentis, in loco parentum, locoism

Anagrams of loco