slang. [f. LOCUS sb.2] trans. To stupefy with drink. To locus away: to get away under the influence of drink. Cf. HOCUS v.
1831. Examiner, 764/2. May threw a glass of the gin into Bishop’s tea, when the latter said, ‘are you going to locus or Burke me?’ Mr. Horner explained that ‘locus’ was a cant word to describe the act of putting a man in a state of stupidity. [The report of the same case in John Bull, 5 Dec., 386/3 has: ‘Are you going to hocus (or burk) me.’]
1868. Temple Bar, XXIV. 539. ‘Locusing’ is putting a chap to sleep with chloroform and ‘bellowsing’ is putting his light out.
1898. J. A. Barry, S. Brown’s Bunyip, etc. 30. I’ve been shanghaied an’ locussed away to sea, an’ I wants to git back home again.
