loquero

m.

1 loony-bin, madhouse (informal).

2 commotion, uproar. (Latin American Spanish)

3 Keeper of a madhouse.

4 Physician to a madhouse (person).

5 row; racket.

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loquero

► nombre masculino,nombre femenino

1 familiar (enfermero) nurse in a mental hospital

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I

loquero, -a

* SM / F (=enfermero) psychiatric nurse loquera II

* SM

1) Arg (=bullicio) row, racket

loquera

2) Cono Sur

(fig) (=manicomio)

esta oficina es un loquero — this office is a madhouse

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-ra masculino, femenino (fam & hum)

a) (psiquiatra) shrink (colloq); (enfermero) psychiatric nurse

b) loquero masculino (manicomio) loony bin (colloq & hum)

esto es un loquero — this place is a madhouse (colloq)

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= asylum, mental asylum, lunatic asylum, madhouse, bedlam, shrink.

Ex. Most of the early asylums for the insane in the USA established libraries for their patients.

Ex. The book starts with the author's mother being taken away for committal to a mental asylum.

Ex. The writer argues that the steady growth in lunatic asylums in early-19th-century British India played an important role in the making of colonial society.

Ex. In the book, Romania is a madhouse filled with the handicapped, deaf mutes, and stutterers.

Ex. In subsequent years, Bethlem became 'Bedlam,' a metaphor for madness; being so long the only public receptacle for the insane, it became equated with madness itself.

Ex. In a town with several million people there are usually hundreds of neurotics who visit shrinks regularly.

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-ra masculino, femenino (fam & hum)

a) (psiquiatra) shrink (colloq); (enfermero) psychiatric nurse

b) loquero masculino (manicomio) loony bin (colloq & hum)

esto es un loquero — this place is a madhouse (colloq)

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= asylum, mental asylum, lunatic asylum, madhouse, bedlam, shrink.

Ex: Most of the early asylums for the insane in the USA established libraries for their patients.

Ex: The book starts with the author's mother being taken away for committal to a mental asylum.

Ex: The writer argues that the steady growth in lunatic asylums in early-19th-century British India played an important role in the making of colonial society.

Ex: In the book, Romania is a madhouse filled with the handicapped, deaf mutes, and stutterers.

Ex: In subsequent years, Bethlem became 'Bedlam,' a metaphor for madness; being so long the only public receptacle for the insane, it became equated with madness itself.

Ex: In a town with several million people there are usually hundreds of neurotics who visit shrinks regularly.

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loquero -ra

masculine, feminine

(fam hum)

1 (psiquiatra) shrink (colloq); (enfermero) nurse (in a lunatic asylum)

2

loquero masculine (manicomio) loony bin (colloq hum), funny farm (colloq hum)

esta casa es un loquero this place is a madhouse (colloq)

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loquero,-a
I m fam madhouse, funny farm: a este ritmo terminamos todos en el loquero, at this rate, we'll all end up at the funny farm
II m,f fam (psiquiatra) shrink
'loquero' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
loquera

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loquero, -a Fam

♦ nm,f

se lo llevaron los loqueros the men in white coats took him away

♦ nm

1. [manicomio] loony-bin, madhouse

2. Am [alboroto] commotion, uproar;

se armó un loquero there was a huge commotion;

su casa es un loquero her home is a madhouse

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loquero

m

1 L.Am. fam

shrink fam ; enfermero psychiatric nurse

2 (manicomio) mental hospital, funny farm fam