ollie
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 5
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 5
Definition of ollie
7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.
“In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]”
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noun
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An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.
“In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]”
verb
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(intransitive)To perform an ollie.
“He used the tilted side as a ramp, grabbed some air, fakied down, and ollied back onto level ground.”
name
- A unisex given name.
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A unisex given name.
“To my surprise and pleasure, it was Olwen that Esme chose to use when speaking of, and to, the baby - though she showed an unhappy tendency to shorten it to Ollie, in spite of my protests that this brought to mind not a stately princess, but the fat man in the Laurel and Hardy comedy series.”
- A unisex given name.
- A unisex given name.
- (derogatory)A male orphan.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname.
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