ollie

See also: Ollie

English

Etymology

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

Noun

ollie (plural ollies)

1. (skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding) An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.

Verb

ollie (third-person singular simple present ollies, present participle ollying or ollieing, simple past and past participle ollied)

1. (intransitive) To perform an ollie.
   • 1992, Troy Bannon, Mean Street, →ISBN, page 41:

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