loco

Meaning

1. crazy, insane, mad, nuts (asserting that something is out of place in the head)
2. rash, risky, imprudent
3. tremendous, terrific, huge, enormous
4. malfunctioning, broken and working incorrectly (said of a machine)
5. overgrown, rambling
6. loose (pipe fittings, pulley)
7. (colloquial) sexy (only with ser)

crazy

mad

raving mad

soft on

not smart

no common sense

oceanic whitetip shark

taken with

hombre joven

sonzo

tener problemas

psicosis maníaca

chalao

desentejado

muy arriesgado

chifloreto

sollao

tostao

locotrón

wuaremate

atrofiado

chiflado

demente

estrofiado

flipiado

lorenzo

traqueado

flipao

engasado

2.20

sobado

soroilo

surumba

topado

trabado

travado

casiano

chiflis

lucrecio

locochón

lorenzo

lurias

lurio

pirádo

chiskeao

chisquiado

deschabetado

deschavetado

ñame

tavy

cocacola

sovietico

choyado

lobanillo

lorenzo

maneatico

lunático

sollao

tostao

turulo

trastonado

alunado

Frequency

Hyphenated as

lo‧co

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈloko/

Inherited from Old Spanish loco, perhaps from Andalusian Arabic لَوْقَاء (láwqa), from Arabic لَوْقَاء (lawqāʔ), feminine singular form of أَلْوَق (ʔalwaq, “stupid”), by reinterpreting the final Andalusian Arabic -a as the Ibero-Romance -a and back-forming the masculine with -o. Edward Roberts thinks the term is related to Arabic لَاق (lāq, “to soften”), but this verb is of root l-y-q, not l-w-q like أَلْوَق (ʔalwaq). Alternatively, derived from Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “clear”). Compare Portuguese louco and Sicilian loccu.