alley oop
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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /al.ɪˈuːp/, /al.ɪˈʊp/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˌæl.iˈup/, /ˌæl.iˈʊp/
- Rhymes: -uːp, -ʊp
Interjection
- Encouraging or calling attention to a physical performance, especially one involving an upwards lift or leap.
- 1917 September 9, B.S. Walcott, letter printed in the 6 Feb. 1918 Princeton Alumni Weekly, p. 389:
- I fortunately found a spark plug on the burn and got that repaired and alley oop!
- 1985, Kevin Eastman & al., Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. I, No. 4, page 2:
- Allez--... --oop!
Beautiful! Great flip Mike!
- Allez--... --oop!
- 2003, Antoinette Stockenberg, A Month at the Shore, page 185:
- ‘Alley-oop,’ he said, and he lifted her out of her seat as easily as if she were a bag of laundry.
- 1917 September 9, B.S. Walcott, letter printed in the 6 Feb. 1918 Princeton Alumni Weekly, p. 389:
Synonyms
Translations
interjection
Adverb
alley oop (not comparable)
- (rare) Synonym of up.
- 1923 November 8, The Daily Herald, page 4:
- Down with the starched collars! Allez up with the soft!
Noun
alley oop (plural alley oops)
- An instance of saying "Alley oop!"
- 1927, Wallace Smith, Are You Decent?, page 94:
- Rollie says... we should cut out our ‘alley-oop’. He says: ‘It's vulgar, that alley-oop. Every small-time acrobat says “alley-oop”.’
- (US sports) A high and arcing pass, catch, or move, especially (basketball) a shot made by a player as part of the same jump used to catch a pass.
- 1965, Harold Rosenthal, The Big Play, page 71:
- Owens helped beat the Chicago Bears with a catch he made in the end zone;... a week later he gathered in an Alley Oop from Tittle for a victory over Green Bay.
- 2006, Snowboard Journal, number 10, page 29:
- It was a mystery how he managed to ride at all with that set-up, let alone tweak alley-oops on this natural quarter pipe!
- 2017, National Basketball Association, "Top Moments: Famous Alley-oop from Kobe to Shaq Caps Lakers' Comeback":
- Kobe Bryant–to–Shaquille O'Neal alley-oops are among the most iconic and lasting NBA images of the early 2000s. The duo's alley-oop in Game 7 of the 2000 Western Conference finals stands above the rest, without a doubt.
Synonyms
- (basketball: alley-oop play): lob jam
Translations
basketball: a play in which one player catches a pass while airborne and scores
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Adjective
alley oop (not comparable)
- (US sports) High and arcing.
- 1957 November 4, Y.A. Tittle, Reno Evening Gazette, page 14:
- I decided to go for the Alley-Oop pass. I knew I had to lay it in the end zone, high, and I just rared back and threw as hard as I could.
- 1959 January 21, “Oroville using ‘Alley Oop’ play”, in The Appeal–Democrat, page 6:
- The Oroville Tigers have adapted the San Francisco '49er football team's famed... play to their own use on the basketball court.
- (US skateboarding and snowboarding) Involving at least a 180-degree turn.
- 1989 November 29, The Guardian, Society, page 46:
- Do you know what an ollie to frontside 50/50 is? A stale-grab Madonna? A smith-grind to revert? An alley-oop lipslide?... They are all gravity- or death-defying tricks.
Verb
alley oop (third-person singular simple present alley oops, present participle alley ooping, simple past and past participle alley ooped)
- To lift or toss upward, or to be lifted or tossed upward.
- 2010, Mary B. Morrison, Somebody's Gotta Be On Top:
- K'Nine intentionally bounced the last shot off the edge of the rim, rebounded, dribbled between his legs for three seconds, then alley ooped to Darius.
- 2011, Daylin Eaton, The Chronicles of Tyson Jenkins: The Witch Sisters, page 107:
- When the ball came back to Tyson, he alley ooped the ball to Larry, who layed it in.
References
- “alley-oop, int., adv., n., and adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2005.
