ollie

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see also: Ollie

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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 (ollies, present participle ollying; past and past participle ollied)

1. (intransitive) To perform an ollie.

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Ollie

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Proper noun

1. A diminutive of the male given name Oliver.
2. A diminutive of the female given names Olivia, Olive and Olwen.
   • 1994 Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man, Viking 1995, ISBN 0670859117, page 429:

     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.

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