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Ollie
Definitions
- 1 A unisex given name.; A diminutive of the male given name Oliver, from French [in turn from Latin, in turn from Germanic].
- 2 A unisex given name.; A female given name.
"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."
- 3 A unisex given name.; A female given name.; A diminutive of the female given names Olivia or Olive, from Latin [in turn from Etruscan, in turn from Greek].
- 4 A unisex given name.; A female given name.; A diminutive of the female given name Olwen, from Welsh.
- 5 A male orphan. derogatory
- 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 […]"
- 1 To perform an ollie. intransitive
"He used the tilted side as a ramp, grabbed some air, fakied down, and ollied back onto level ground."
Etymology
From Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname.
From Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname.
From Germanic, from Latin olivarius (“olive tree”) (from oliva (“olive”)), and from Welsh.
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