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.
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Andy Kessler,
WSJ,
2 July 2017
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Adjective
As one of my colleagues said, this was straight loco.
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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
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The drugs brought on psychotic episodes that were destructive, and when his son was about 20, the family made the difficult decision to ask Sean to leave the house.
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In the second episode, Tom spends a night in the local inn, and ends up in a crawl space with the ghost of a psychotic killer clown.
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Oh, and more often than not, nobody bothers to check whether the change intervention actually worked, or whether leaders improve their performance after all!
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The chest pain that had been bothering her finally let up.
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Initially skeptical, Tom becomes increasingly paranoid after a sailor who got lost in the fog essentially goes mad, with his eyes turning white just before dying.
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Relative bargain Please do not be mad at me for relaying this insurance math.
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The risk is that only a handful of clubs will be able to cough up those sums, unbalancing the market.
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The trouble was that this stance unbalanced him at home.
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The Lenovo ThinkBook 16 Gen 8 laptop shows up ready to work with a snappy Intel Core Ultra 7 processor, insane 32GB of RAM, and spacious 2TB SSD in its (figurative) briefcase.
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Eventually, though, Lestat breaks, coming clean about his tumultuous past with first lover Nicolas de Lenfent (Joseph Potter), who went insane after being attacked by Armand (Assad Zaman) in Paris in the late 18th century.
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Frank, moving, and just slightly deranged.
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Only sick, demented, or deranged people in the House or Senate could vote against THE SAVE AMERICA ACT.
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The president as a maniacal urban planner is a white-knuckle ride, with Washington — and Washingtonians — just holding on for dear life.
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One of Anthropic’s great strengths compared to its archrival OpenAI is its maniacal focus.
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The point guard Jose Alvarado, shirtless and crazed by joy, zoomed by, passing 250 Broadway.
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In cities around the United States, Mexico and Canada, fan zones are popping up as a gathering place for the soccer-crazed and the soccer-curious to come and enjoy the Beautiful Game.
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“Loco.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loco. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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