/ˈɒli/
OriginFrom Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname.
- 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 […]”
- intransitiveTo perform an ollie.
“He used the tilted side as a ramp, grabbed some air, fakied down, and ollied back onto level ground.”
- A diminutive of the male given name Oliver, from French in turn from Latin, in turn from Germanic.
- 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 br”
- A diminutive of the female given names Olivia or Olive, from Latin in turn from Etruscan, in turn from Greek.
- A diminutive of the female given name Olwen, from Welsh.
Formsollies(plural) · ollies(present, singular, third-person) · ollieing(participle, present) · ollied(participle, past) · ollied(past)