loco : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: loco	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for loco
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
loco adj informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" Synonym(s): balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
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. [bd]The locoed novelist.[b8] --W. D. Howells.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Loco, OK (town, FIPS 43450) Location: 34.32953 N, 97.68022 W Population (1990): 160 (82 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73442