ollie
/ˈɒli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.
name
A unisex given name.
name
A unisex given name.
name
A unisex given name.
name
A unisex given name.
Example Sentences
- "In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]"
- "He used the tilted side as a ramp, grabbed some air, fakied down, and ollied back onto level ground."
- "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 brought to mind not a stately princess, but the fat man in the Laurel and Hardy comedy series."
Etymology
From Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: olivarius