alley oop

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1. Encouraging or calling attention to a physical performance, especially one involving an upwards lift or leap.

   Allez--... --oop! Beautiful! Great flip Mike!

   1985, Kevin Eastman & al., Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. I, No. 4, page 2

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   I fortunately found a spark plug on the burn and got that repaired and alley oop!

   1917 September 9, B.S. Walcott, letter printed in the 6 Feb. 1918 Princeton Alumni Weekly, p. 389

   He lifted her onto the verandah, crying “Allee-oops!”

   1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 351

   ‘Alley-oop,’ he said, and he lifted her out of her seat as easily as if she were a bag of laundry.

   2003, Antoinette Stockenberg, A Month at the Shore, page 185

   Synonyms: get up!, go on!, come on!

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1. not comparablerareSynonym of up.

   Down with the starched collars! Allez up with the soft!

   1923 November 8, The Daily Herald, page 4

   Synonyms: up

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1. An instance of saying "Alley oop!"

   Rollie says... we should cut out our ‘alley-oop’. He says: ‘It's vulgar, that alley-oop. Every small-time acrobat says “alley-oop”.’

   1927, Wallace Smith, Are You Decent?, page 94

2. UShobbiesA 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.

   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!

   2006, Snowboard Journal, number 10, page 29

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   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.

   1965, Harold Rosenthal, The Big Play, page 71

   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.

   2017, National Basketball Association, "Top Moments: Famous Alley-oop from Kobe to Shaq Caps Lakers' Comeback"

   Synonyms: lob jam

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1. USnot comparablehobbiesHigh and arcing.

   The Oroville Tigers have adapted the San Francisco '49er football team's famed... play to their own use on the basketball court.

   1959 January 21, “Oroville using ‘Alley Oop’ play”, in The Appeal–Democrat, page 6

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   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.

   1957 November 4, Y.A. Tittle, Reno Evening Gazette, page 14

2. USnot comparablehobbiesInvolving at least a 180-degree turn.

   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.

   1989 November 29, The Guardian, Society, page 46

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1. To lift or toss upward, or to be lifted or tossed upward.

   When the ball came back to Tyson, he alley ooped the ball to Larry, who layed it in.

   2011, Daylin Eaton, The Chronicles of Tyson Jenkins: The Witch Sisters, page 107

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   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.

   2010, Mary B. Morrison, Somebody's Gotta Be On Top