| 单词 | loco |
| 释义 | loco (once / 7036 pages) adj If someone calls you loco, it means they think you're nutty or eccentric. Your friends will think your dog is completely loco if she spends hours every day chasing her own tail. You can use the slang term loco when you're commenting on the craziness or irrationality of a person or situation. You might say, for example: "This meeting is totally loco — everyone's talking at the same time!" Loco comes from American English, which borrowed it from the Spanish loco, "insane." Its roots are uncertain, but it may stem from the Arabic lauqa, "fool." WORD FAMILYloco USAGE EXAMPLESDutta, a railway locomotive driver and president of the All India Loco Running Staff Association, a train operators’ trade union. Seattle Times(Nov 22, 2016) She went to college in the United States, but she was not the kind of girl to spend Friday evening at Señor Loco’s happy hour. Salon(Nov 05, 2016) If you want your model engine to come with digital control and authentic sound effects, you can easily pay more than £300 per loco. BBC(Oct 24, 2016) adj informal or slang terms for mentally irregular Syn around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky insane afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement |
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