pieces of eight

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Noun[edit]

pieces of eight

  1. plural of piece of eight

Usage notes[edit]

  • "Pieces of eight!" is a popular parrot's cry in story-book depictions of pirates, after Long John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1881).
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