ollie

Etymology

From “Ollie”, the nickname of the Florida skateboarder Alan Gelfand.

noun

  1. (skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding) 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 […] 2007, Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism, page 124

verb

  1. (intransitive) To 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, page 41

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