Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
loco
adj
Etymology From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
It's Cottontail Smith, and he's gone plumb loco!1943 April 3, Super-Rabbit, spoken by an unnamed rabbit:
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 strong1988, 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:
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:
You know, I’m a little loco. Kinda crazy, zany guy.2003 December 15, The New Yorker, page 56:
They say that he is locoed. The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds.1904, Charles Dudley Warner, “The Locoed Novelist”, in The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner:
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:
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:
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...: