aloose

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ loose.

Adverb

aloose (not comparable)

1. (dialect) Free from restraints.
   • 1922, John Preston White, The Texas Criminal Reports:

     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.

   • 1968, North Carolina reports - Volume 273, page 511:

     There'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.

   • 1974, Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus; Tales, page 167:

     Dey 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.

   • 2006, Mary Monroe, God Don't Like Ugly:

     It took the undertaker and that big old strappin' teenage boy of his quite a while to pull him aloose.