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Loco \Lo"co\, adv. [It.] (Mus.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
Loco \Lo"co\, n. [Sp. loco insane.] 1. (Bot.) A plant ({Astragalus Hornii}) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also {loco weed}.
2. (Bot.) Any one of various leguminous plants or weeds besides {Astragalus}, whose herbage is poisonous to cattle, as {Spiesia Lambertii}, syn. {Oxytropis Lambertii}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Loco \Lo"co\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Locoed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Locoing}.] To poison with loco; to affect with the loco disease; hence (Colloq.), to render insane or mad. ``The locoed novelist.'' --W. D. Howells. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Loco \Lo"co\, n. A locomotive. [Colloq.] --Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
loco \lo"co\, a. [Sp. loco insane.] Insane; crazy. [Originally Southwestern U. S., now slang] [PJC]
In the 1980s, however, when students are perceived to be to the right of their academic mentors and "student life" administrators, the apparatus of universities "in loco parentis" is being rebuilt with a vengeance.