Etymology of "wacko"

Tue Jan 31 18:23:42 UTC 2006

>
>   But seriously: I have four citations for "crocko" as a
> synonym for _crocked_ and _stinko_.  One is from Jon Green.
> Is anybody else familiar with this, especially as a U.S. term
> ?  My earliest U.S. date is from the ' 60s.
>

No help there.  But "mocko-crocko" and spelling variants show up in
fashion articles from the mid-1960's as a synonym for fake crocodile
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