ollie

plural ollies

1. hobbiesAn 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 […]

   2007, Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism, page 124

present singular third person ollies · participle present ollieing · participle past ollied · past ollied

1. intransitiveTo perform an ollie.

   He used the tilted side as a ramp, grabbed some air, fakied down, and ollied back onto level ground.

   1992, Troy Bannon, Mean Street, →ISBN, page 41

1. A unisex given name.
   1. A diminutive of the male given name Oliver, from French [in turn from Latin, in turn from Germanic].
   2. A female 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.

      1994, Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man, Viking, published 1995, →ISBN, page 429

   3. A diminutive of the female given names Olivia and Olive, from Latin [in turn from Etruscan, in turn from Greek].
   4. A diminutive of the female given name Olwen, from Welsh.
2. derogatoryA male orphan.