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ollie

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈɒli//

An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.

noun

  1. 1

    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 […]

Etymology

From Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname.

verb

  1. 1

    To perform an ollie.

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

Forms

plural
ollies
past tense
ollied
past participle
ollied
present participle
ollieing
third person singular
ollies
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).