to ollie
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8.9
- verb
- /ˈɑːli/
- Jargon
:
hacer un ollie
- He was proud to show off his ability to ollie over obstacles at the skate park.
Examples
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How do you navigate around the city if you can't ollie?
Blog text (6) -
#Oh, I can fly up the ramp to the railing, And then I could jump to the roof And then skate the roof ridge, And then ollie back to the windowsill And grind it, And then fall from my board And crash onto the side of the house.
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If you can't ollie, you are so limited.
Blog text (6) -
You can't ollie with longboards.
Blog text (6) -
Just go up, down, and the quarter pipe four times, slide rail halfway down the pipe, jump over the right side, ollie out, land on the cage.
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She can ollie up curbs and stuff; that's pretty rad.
Blog text (6) -
Well, we don't, we're not competitive, like saying, "I can ollie (a skateboard trick) higher than you, so get away from me," and stuff like that; we're like, we just want to do a few things people are doing, and skaters help out skaters...
Academic text (1996) -
To impress his friends, he decided to ollie over a large crack in the sidewalk.
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After practicing for weeks, she finally learned to ollie smoothly during her skateboarding sessions.
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Etymology
Ollie as a verb comes from the skater Ollie Gelfand's name for his move, so to ollie means 'to jump' with a skateboard without using your hands.