Noun: loco
| Singular | loco |
| Plural | locos; locoes |
Sample Sentences
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A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him. [1898, Rudyard Kipling, chapter .007, in The Day's Work, New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., page 243:]
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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. [1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 94:]
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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. [2016 November 29, Anthony Comegna, The Loco-Foco Movement...:]
Nouns inflected like loco
great go,
great-go,
senhor,
afrancesado,
sprite halo,
shacko,
commando,
villiaco,
magic Negro,
Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko,
chacmool,
yerbal,
depressor,
bombolo,
bolivar,
bolívar,
buccinator,
boratto,
botargo,
slashed zero, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”). See: Spanish Nouns '
loco'.