loco

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Regno Unito//ˈləʊ.kəʊ//

A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

avverbio

1
A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

Etimologia

Borrowed from Italian.

aggettivo

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Crazy.
It's Cottontail Smith, and he's gone plumb loco!
Going loco down in Acapulco / If you stay too long / Yes, you'll be going loco down in Acapulco / The magic down there is so strong
Who you trying to get crazy with ése? Don't you know I'm loco?
Holla in New York, fo'sho they'll tell you I'm loco
2
Intoxicated by eating locoweed.

Etimologia

From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).

sostantivo

1
A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.

verbo

1
To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
2
To render insane.
They say that he is locoed. The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds.

sostantivo

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Variante di locomotiveinformaleShort for locomotive.
Small boys in 1963 could have traction engines with real steam coming out of the funnel, and Old Western locos had flashing lights, hooters and cow-pushers.
2
Variante di locofocostoricoShort for locofoco, in its various senses.
Like his fellow Young American locos, Thomas Dorr was an early and vigorous advocate of global republicanism and William Leggett’s locofocoism, though this point is little-known and less emphasized in histories of the Dorr Rebellion.

Etimologia

From clipping of locomotive and locofoco, both from Latin locus (“place, cause”).

Forme

plurale: locos, locoes
comparativo: more loco
superlativo: most loco
passato: locoed
participio passato: locoed
participio presente: locoing
3ª persona singolare: locos

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loco · A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

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