loco adj : informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes with: -əʊkəʊ

Etymology 1

Adverb

1. A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

Etymology 2

loco from loco. From γλαυκός or لوق.

Adjective

1. crazy

Quotations

• 2003: You know, I’m a little loco. Kinda crazy, zany guy. — The New Yorker, 15 Dec 2003, p.56

Translations

Noun

1. A plant Astragalus hornii growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the genus Astragalus.

Synonyms

• loco weed

Interlingua

Noun

ia-noun s

1. Place, location.

Italian

Noun

1. A place.
2. A written passage.

Synonyms

• luogo

Verb

loco

1. Form of First-person singular present tense, locare

Latin

Adverb

1. In the place.

Noun

1. Ablative and dative singular of locus, place.

Verb

1. I put, place, set.
2. I arrange, establish.
3. I lease, hire out, lend.

Inflection

Descendants

• English: locate

Spanish

Adjective

1. crazy, insane, mad (asserting that something is out of place in the head).
2. rash, risky, imprudent
3. tremendous, terrific, huge, enormous
4. overgrown, rambling
5. loose (pipe fittings, pulley)

Noun

1. A crazy person.
2. A highly affected homosexual

Related terms

• locura
• locamente
• enloquecer
• volver loco

See also

• trastorno
• trastornar
• trastornado

Loco can refer to the following:

• Loco (loa), a Rada nation patron of gangsters and drugs
• Loco (song), the first single by the band Coal Chamber
• An abbreviation for locomotive
• The Chilean and Peruvian name for the local Abalone
• Loco (computer game), a 1984 computer game for Commodore 64.
• Loco (Audio Programming Language), is an audio programming language designed to be for sound what Logo is for graphics
• Loco (album), a 2001 song and album by the Fun Lovin' Criminals
• Loco Linux, a Linux distribution
• Loco, Oklahoma is a place in Stephens County
• Loco, Switzerland
• The nickname of Manuel Antonio Cange, a footballer
• Loco team, a group of Linux and open source advocates
• Loco (Gobots), a character from the Gobots toyline
• Loco (MÄR) - A fictional character in the manga and anime series MÄR
• LocoRoco - Game for PSP(Playstation Portable)and Playstation 3
• Spanish name for the edible mollusc Concholepas concholepas

• Spanish eponym for "crazy".

abnormal, bereft of reason, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, distraught, flighty, fruity, hallucinated, insane, irrational, lunatic, mad, maddened, maniac, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mindless, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, nuts, odd, of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, reasonless, senseless, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wandering, witless