Definition of loco
: in the register as written
—used as a direction in music
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Origin and Etymology of loco
Italian dialect, there, from Latin in loco in the place
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According to the Daily Mail, cameras picked up the Brazilian referring to Holgate as 'loco' and 'filha du puto' ('mad' and 'son of a b***h), while other angles are said to have revealed that the 'n' word was used as well.
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Real investors survey the landscape and look for signs of a market gone loco.
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Origin and Etymology of loco
Mexican Spanish, from Spanish, crazy
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First Known Use: 1844
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Examples of loco in a Sentence
years of living alone had clearly locoed the old rancher
First Known Use of loco
1884
Examples of loco in a Sentence
The crowd went loco when she walked out on the stage.
He's not just weird, he's positively loco.
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Real investors survey the landscape and look for signs of a market gone loco.
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As one of my colleagues said, this was straight loco.
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Origin and Etymology of loco
Spanish
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