Meanings
- dialectalnot comparableFree from restraints.
It took the undertaker and that big old strappin' teenage boy of his quite a while to pull him aloose.
2006, Mary Monroe, God Don't Like Ugly3 more examples
The reason she got to him quicker than I did is because Mooring did not turn me aloose as quick as Cox turned her aloose.
1922, John Preston White, The Texas Criminal ReportsThere's nothing but young girls live over there, work around the . . . Capitol buildings, State buildings . . . they were screaming that they had called the police, to turn me aloose. He turned my left hand aloose and started — he dropped it down on my leg.
1968, North Carolina reports - Volume 273, page 511Dey wuz constant a-gwine on data a-way, en ef I wa'n't gittin' so mighty weak-kneed in de membunce I'd bust aloose yer en I'd fair wake you up wid de gwines on er dem ar creeturs.
1974, Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus; Tales, page 167
Origin
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