Hypertext Webster Gateway: "loco"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Loco \Lo"co\, adv. [It.] (Mus.)
A direction in written or printed music to return to the
proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Loco \Lo"co\, n. [Sp. loco insane.] (Bot.)
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 same genus. Called also {loco
weed}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Loco \Lo"co\, n.
A locomotive. [Colloq.] --Kipling.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Loco \Lo"co\, n. (Bot.)
Any one of various leguminous plants or weeds besides
{Astragalus}, whose herbage is poisonous to cattle, as
{Spiesia Lambertii}, syn. {Oxytropis Lambertii}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Loco \Lo"co\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Locoed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Locoing}.]
To poison with loco; to affect with the loco disease; hence
(Colloq.), to render insane or mad. ``The locoed novelist.''
--W. D. Howells.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
loco
adj : informal or slang terms for mentally irregular [syn: {balmy},
{barmy}, {bats}, {batty}, {bonkers}, {buggy}, {cracked},
{crackers}, {daft}, {dotty}, {fruity}, {haywire}, {kooky},
{kookie}, {loony}, {loopy}, {nuts}, {nutty}, {wacky}]
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