Example sentences for: loco

How can you use “loco” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Another good example of the life of a bato loco is “La Vida de un Bato Loco,” a short memoir written by an informant of Linda Katz, reproduced in her thesis on the pachuco language and culture written for a master’s degree at the University of California, Los Angeles.

  • One character is named Bato, as in bato loco (crazy guy), a phrase of contemporary usage among Chicanos today.

  • striptiz uotur striptease water, a curious reference to maladroit, foolish individuals; kretenozavur cretinosaurus; boiler one whose head is full of bubbling hot water; sifon siphon, one whose head is like an empty tube; bushón fuse, from French bouchon cork; diaria diarrhea; loko from Spanish loco; galosh as in galoshes; kashón crate, from Italian cassone; lainer ocean liner, a pun on the Bulgarian word lainó scum.

  • The bato is often mentioned in connection with his barrio, as in el vato loco del Hoyo Mara.


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