ollie
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English
Etymology
From Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname.
Pronunciation
Noun
ollie (plural ollies)
- (skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding) An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.
- 2007, Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism, page 124:
- In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]
Verb
ollie (third-person singular simple present ollies, present participle ollying or ollieing, simple past and past participle ollied)
- (intransitive) To perform an ollie.
- 1992, Troy Bannon, Mean Street, →ISBN, page 41:
- He used the tilted side as a ramp, grabbed some air, fakied down, and ollied back onto level ground.