as in psychotic
unable to think in a clear or sensible way
that dog's straight loco, just running around in circles all day long
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as in to bother
to cause to go insane or as if insane
years of living alone had clearly locoed the old rancher
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Recent Examples of loco
Ryu Spaeth, New Republic, 28 July 2017
Real investors survey the landscape and look for signs of a market gone loco.
—Andy Kessler, WSJ, 2 July 2017
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Adjective
As one of my colleagues said, this was straight loco.
—Ryu Spaeth, New Republic, 28 July 2017
Real investors survey the landscape and look for signs of a market gone loco.
—Andy Kessler, WSJ, 2 July 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loco
Adjective
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Brown's attorneys had said Brown could at times appear psychotic.—
Kevin Grasha,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Sep. 2025
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Psychologists and psychiatrists are scrambling to better understand how use of chatbots can fuel delusions and drive psychotic episodes.—
Amy Feldman,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The acting didn’t bother me, but the directing did.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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If the odds of winning the lottery are so low, why do people bother playing?—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Can decades of quotidian contentment really hold a candle to the mad blush of first love?—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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Poetry walks with me each step of my mad thinking.—
Rickey Laurentiis,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The media frenzy about GLP-1 agonists hadn't yet started.—
Mara Gordon,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2025
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During the media frenzy the then-21-year-old held a press conference, delivering a heartfelt resignation speech.—
Janine Rubenstein,
Peoplemag,
27 July 2024
Verb
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Candida is part of a healthy microbiota but in high abundance, it has been identified as an opportunistic microorganism, causing a reduction in community diversity, and unbalancing the gut microbiota.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 June 2025
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Hawkins’s performance as a woman who was destroyed by the death of her daughter, more so than anyone around her seems to realize, both powers and unbalances the film.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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Stines’ defense attorneys, Jeremy and Kerri Bartley, say the sheriff was insane at the time of the killing and want his full mental health report – which is currently sealed – released to the public.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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Making straight men insane comes with the territory on one of TV’s most-talked about shows of the last five years (House of the Dragon continues to rack up toward 10 million viewers per ep).—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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Fans are even speculating that Swift may drop the first single from her upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl, in the series finale—which seems deranged, but weirder things have happened.—
Olivia Petter,
Vogue,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Wisecracking, cackling mini-maniac Teddy was the daredevil of the group.—
Sezin Devi Koehler September 1,
EW.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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America’s closest ally was teetering on the precipice of collapse to a maniacal leader, which would give the Nazis control of Europe.—
Doug Most
August 20,
Literary Hub,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Loco.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loco. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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