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/Sounds like "loh" (as in "loan") + "KOH" (as in "coat") + "toh" (as in "toll")/

Meaning

A round, red Bolivian chili pepper, the spiciest in the country's cuisine, enough to make even the bravest sweat. In Bolivia, locoto is the star of llajua and any dish that needs real fire.

Examples

I added locoto to the dish and he could barely finish it.

That sauce has locoto in it, careful, it's really hot.

Regional synonyms

A big chaotic mess, total disorder. In Venezuela, "se armó un bololó" means everything went sideways at once: a fight broke out, the party got out of control, or traffic turned into a nightmare. Any situation where multiple things are going wrong simultaneously.