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alley-oop, adv. and int.
Brit. |alɪˈuːp|, |alɪˈʊp|, U.S. |ˌæliˈup|, |ˌæliˈʊp|
Forms: 19– alley-oop, 19– allez-oop, 19– allez-up, 19– ally-oop
[‹ French allez-hop, interjection > n.) + hop, expressive word, of imitative origin (1652 as houp; compare Middle French houper, verb (end of the 14th cent.); compare houp-la int.).
With form allez-up compare up adv.1]
A. adv. = up adv.1 32e. rare.
1923Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Herald 8 Nov. 4/3 Down with the starched collars! Allez up with the soft!
B. int. Used to encourage or draw attention to the performance of a physical (esp. acrobatic) feat.
1926L. Hart Allez-up in D. Hart & R. Kimball Compl. Lyrics L. Hart (1986) 76/1 We love to holler ‘Allez-up’! No matter what we do. That's why we always rally up When we're a little blue. 1926San Mateo (Calif.) Times & Daily News Leader 25 Sept. 9/3 Two of Jeffries' adherents grabbed me by the feet, yelled ‘Alley oop’ like a couple of acrobats and tossed me in the air. 1950Times 22 Dec. 2/5 ‘Allez oop,’ cried the acrobat's wife, with her heart in her mouth. 2003A. Stockenberg Month at Shore xvii. 185 ‘Alley-oop,’ he said, and he lifted her out of her seat as easily as if she were a bag of laundry.
C. adj. (attrib.).
1.
a. N. Amer. Sport. Designating a high, arcing pass or hit.
1957Y. A. Tittle in Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 4 Nov. 14/2, 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. 1974Sporting News 27 July 52/3 Shortstop Danny Monzon slapped an alley-oop single over third baseman Roy Staiger's head into short left field. 2004Press Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.) (Nexis) 25 Aug. c11 The catch Jarrett made on an alley-oop toss into the end zone over the entire first-team backfield had to help him feel better.
b. Basketball. Designating or involving a high pass near the basket that is received above the rim and dunked or tipped in to score; designating a basket scored from such a pass.
1959Appeal Democrat (Marysville, Calif.) 21 Jan. 6/1 (headline) Oroville using ‘Alley Oop’ play. The Oroville Tigers have adapted the San Francisco '49er football team's famed..play to their own use on the basketball court. 1974Frederick (Maryland) Post 26 Mar. b1/1 Whether soaring to score on his ‘alley-oop’ shots or leaping high to intimidate Marquette's shooters, Thompson was the nemesis of the Warriors. 1991Sports Illustr. 8 Apr. 23/1 An astonishing one-handed, alley-oop dunk two minutes into the game.
2. In skateboarding, snowboarding, etc.: designating any of various spinning manoeuvres, typically involving a 180-degree turn.
1989Guardian (Nexis) 29 Nov. 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.) 1996Inline Jan. 12/2, I can only do..some grinds like an alley-oop frontside..soul grind. 1998Unity Sept.–Oct. 36/2 Issam was..pulling real high alley-oop airs and 720 McTwists with great style.
D. n. An alley-oop pass or manoeuvre.
1978Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 25 Sept. 17 c, It was originally supposed to be an alley-oop to Harold. 1995Fusion Sept. 92/2 Tomahawk jams, alley oops and all them other ‘phat’ moves. 2003D. Millner & N. Chiles In Love & War 134 Derrick came down and fed Tariq with an alley-oop over the sleeping St. Anthony's defense, sending the crowd into hysterics when Tariq viciously slammed the ball into the basket. |