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locoing

locoing is the present participle and gerund of loco.

Meaning of loco

Verb

loco (third-person singular simple present locos, present participle locoing, simple past and past participle locoed)

  1. (transitive) To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
  2. (broadly, colloquial, transitive) To render insane.
    • They say that he is locoed. The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds.1904, Charles Dudley Warner, “The Locoed Novelist”, in The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner

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Questions about locoing

What is locoing the present participle and gerund of?
Locoing is the present participle and gerund of loco.

Words near locoing in the dictionary

  1. locoed
  2. locoes
  3. locofoco
  4. Locofocoism
  5. locofocos
  6. locoing
  7. locoism
  8. locoman
  9. locomen
  10. locomobile
  11. Locomobiles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: locoing (page history and authors); loco (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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