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How to use loco in a sentence

17 example sentences · adverb, adjective, noun

Loco means a direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower. Example: “All persons in loco parentis have a responsibility to care for the child.”

Examples of loco by meaning

adjectiveCrazy.

  • It's Cottontail Smith, and he's gone plumb loco!1943 April 3, Super-Rabbit, spoken by an unnamed rabbit
  • Don't you know I'm loco?1993, “Insane in the Brain”, in Black Sunday, performed by Cypress Hill
  • Holla in New York, fo'sho they'll tell you I'm loco2003, “In da Club”, in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent

verbTo render insane.

  • They say that he is locoed.1904, Charles Dudley Warner, “The Locoed Novelist”, in The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner

More sentences with loco

  • All persons in loco parentis have a responsibility to care for the child.From the entry in loco parentis
  • The coaches require modifications, including work to ensure they can work in push-pull mode with Class 67 locos.2019 October, Rhodri Clark, “TfW seeks PRM derogation for Class 37 sets”, in Modern Railways, page 87. From the entry push-pull
  • Upon redivorce, the in loco parentis relationship is considered terminated.2013, Robert E. Emery, Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 1158. From the entry redivorce
  • He pointed out that a campful of men alone in the woods can go a little loco sometimes.2012, Kris Saknussemm, Sea Monkeys: A Memory Book, page 110. From the entry campful
  • By acting in loco parentis, the written word performs its own usurpations of generating authority and generated meanings.1988, Deborah Baker Wyrick, “Investitures: Swift and Verbal Authority”, in Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word, Chapel Hill, N.C.; London…. From the entry trope
  • The sesban belongs to the pulse family which contains a number of poisonous plants like the lupine, rattle-box loco weed, etc.1919, Veterinary Medicine, volume 14, page 246. From the entry sesban
  • Then the brass bell on top of the boiler rings out and a single massive chuff! of steam issues from the bowels of the loco.2010, Don Gayton, Okanagan Odyssey: Journeys Through Terrain, Terroir and Culture, page 82. From the entry chuff
  • The most serious mistake in connection with loco disease is made in allowing locoed sheep to remain with the rest of the band.1919, “Diseases of Sheep”, in Farmer's Cyclopedia: Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats, cats, dogs, page 615. From the entry locoed
  • But timid, feverish, locoed people, whose jedgment is bad an' who's prone to feel themse'fs in peril; they're the kind who kills.1902, Alfred Lewis, Wolfville Nights. From the entry jedgment
  • All services to Rhymney were top and tailed by locos that had been associated with the line over the years; namely, Classes 33, 37, 47 and 50.2018, Nicholas Wilcock, Arriva Trains Wales. From the entry top and tail
  • “max, you know i don't smoke.” “this is different.” “What is it?” “gage.” “eh?” “texas tea. mexican spinach. maitland madness. loco weed. indian hemp. gangster. marijuana.”2011, Peter Doyle, The Devil's Jump, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry Texas tea
  • What was modified so that 73s could haul (or push) and heat air-con stock on Gatwick Express (pre Darth Vader) - the locos or the coaches?2005 January 5, Peter Masson, “What future for the MK3's?”, in uk.railway (Usenet). From the entry Darth Vader
  • The loco habit is apparently learned by imitation of locoed animals, and so long as locoed sheep are allowed to remain with other sheep the loco habit rapidly spreads.1919, “Diseases of Sheep”, in Farmer's Cyclopedia: Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats, cats, dogs, page 615. From the entry locoed

Meaning of loco

  1. adverb A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
  2. adjective Crazy.
  3. adjective Intoxicated by eating locoweed.

Full definition of loco

Questions about loco in a sentence

How do you use loco in a sentence?
Loco is used as an adverb, adjective and noun. For example: “All persons in loco parentis have a responsibility to care for the child.”
What is a short sentence with loco?
“Don't you know I'm loco?”
What does loco mean?
Loco means a direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: loco (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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