Adjective: loco
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more loco |
| Superlative | most loco |
Sample Sentences
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It's Cottontail Smith, and he's gone plumb loco! [1943 April 3, Super-Rabbit, spoken by an unnamed rabbit:]
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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 [1988, Phil Collins, “Loco in Acapulco”, in Indestructible, performed by Four Tops:]
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Who you trying to get crazy with ése? Don't you know I'm loco? [1993, “Insane in the Brain”, in Black Sunday, performed by Cypress Hill:]
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Holla in New York, fo'sho they'll tell you I'm loco [2003, “In da Club”, in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent:]
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You know, I’m a little loco. Kinda crazy, zany guy. [2003 December 15, The New Yorker, page 56:]
Adjectives inflected like loco
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”). See: Spanish Adjectives '
loco'.