Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In or to pieces.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete In pieces or to pieces.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb obsolete Into pieces.

Etymologies

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a- +‎ pieces

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Examples

  • I can cut you all apieces like I would a piece of meat

    Bessie Smith Lyrics 2009

  • I can cut you all apieces like I would a piece of meat

    Mistreating Daddy Porter Grainger 1923

  • It's just bottled up in me like ale; if I didn't take the cork out now and then, I should fly apieces! "

    Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

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