See alley oop in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for alley oop meaning in English (17.2kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "allez-hop",
"4": "allez-hop!"
},
"expansion": "French allez-hop!",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "allez",
"3": "",
"4": "go! let's go!"
},
"expansion": "allez (“go! let's go!”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "aller"
},
"expansion": "aller",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "hop"
},
"expansion": "hop",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "onomatopoeic",
"name": "onomatopoeic"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "alley oop !",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "alley oop!"
},
"expansion": "alley oop!",
"name": "en-interj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1917 September 9, B.S. Walcott, letter printed in the 6 Feb. 1918 Princeton Alumni Weekly, p. 389",
"text": "I fortunately found a spark plug on the burn and got that repaired and alley oop!"
},
{
"ref": "1985, Kevin Eastman & al., Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. I, No. 4, page 2",
"text": "Allez--... --oop!\nBeautiful! Great flip Mike!"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Antoinette Stockenberg, A Month at the Shore, page 185",
"text": "‘Alley-oop,’ he said, and he lifted her out of her seat as easily as if she were a bag of laundry.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Encouraging or calling attention to a physical performance, especially one involving an upwards lift or leap."
],
"id": "en-alley_oop-en-intj-9XWSOdkU",
"links": [
[
"upwards",
"upwards#English"
],
[
"lift",
"lift#English"
],
[
"leap",
"leap#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "get up!"
},
{
"word": "go on!"
},
{
"english": "encouraging",
"word": "come on!"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chāinǐwū",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "拆你屋"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "allez-hop"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "alley oop"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "áleï-oup",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "άλεϊ-ουπ"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "alle-óp",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "алле-о́п"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "allej-óp",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "аллей-о́п"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "alle-úp",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "алле-у́п"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "allej-úp",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "аллей-у́п"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "a-lê-hấp"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈuːp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈup/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːp"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊp"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-alley oop.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "alley oop"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "allez-hop",
"4": "allez-hop!"
},
"expansion": "French allez-hop!",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "allez",
"3": "",
"4": "go! let's go!"
},
"expansion": "allez (“go! let's go!”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "aller"
},
"expansion": "aller",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "hop"
},
"expansion": "hop",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "onomatopoeic",
"name": "onomatopoeic"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "alley oop (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1923 November 8, The Daily Herald, page 4",
"text": "Down with the starched collars! Allez up with the soft!",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of up."
],
"id": "en-alley_oop-en-adv-mN0YyQ2h",
"links": [
[
"up",
"up#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) Synonym of up."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "up"
}
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈuːp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈup/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːp"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊp"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-alley oop.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "alley oop"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "allez-hop",
"4": "allez-hop!"
},
"expansion": "French allez-hop!",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "allez",
"3": "",
"4": "go! let's go!"
},
"expansion": "allez (“go! let's go!”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "aller"
},
"expansion": "aller",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "hop"
},
"expansion": "hop",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "onomatopoeic",
"name": "onomatopoeic"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "alley oops",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "alley oop (plural alley oops)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "19 16 3 9 23 21 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1927, Wallace Smith, Are You Decent?, page 94",
"text": "Rollie says... we should cut out our ‘alley-oop’. He says: ‘It's vulgar, that alley-oop. Every small-time acrobat says “alley-oop”.’",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An instance of saying \"Alley oop!\""
],
"id": "en-alley_oop-en-noun-DuXw21YO",
"links": [
[
"instance",
"instance"
],
[
"Alley oop",
"#Interjection"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "3 0 73 7 6 6 4",
"word": "alley-oop"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 0 73 7 6 6 4",
"word": "alleyoop"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 0 73 7 6 6 4",
"word": "allez-oop"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 0 73 7 6 6 4",
"word": "allez oop"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 0 73 7 6 6 4",
"word": "allez-up"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 0 73 7 6 6 4",
"word": "ally-oop"
},
{
"_dis1": "84 16",
"sense": "basketball: alley-oop play",
"word": "lob jam"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Basketball",
"orig": "en:Basketball",
"parents": [
"Ball games",
"Sports",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Sports",
"orig": "en:Sports",
"parents": [
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "19 16 3 9 23 21 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1965, Harold Rosenthal, The Big Play, page 71",
"text": "Owens helped beat the Chicago Bears with a catch he made in the end zone;... a week later he gathered in an Alley Oop from Tittle for a victory over Green Bay.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Snowboard Journal, number 10, page 29",
"text": "It was a mystery how he managed to ride at all with that set-up, let alone tweak alley-oops on this natural quarter pipe!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, National Basketball Association, \"Top Moments: Famous Alley-oop from Kobe to Shaq Caps Lakers' Comeback\"",
"text": "Kobe Bryant–to–Shaquille O'Neal alley-oops are among the most iconic and lasting NBA images of the early 2000s. The duo's alley-oop in Game 7 of the 2000 Western Conference finals stands above the rest, without a doubt."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A high and arcing pass, catch, or move, especially (basketball) a shot made by a player as part of the same jump used to catch a pass."
],
"id": "en-alley_oop-en-noun-xosdYOjT",
"links": [
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"pass",
"pass"
],
[
"catch",
"catch"
],
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"basketball",
"basketball"
],
[
"shot",
"shot"
],
[
"jump",
"jump"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US sports) A high and arcing pass, catch, or move, especially (basketball) a shot made by a player as part of the same jump used to catch a pass."
],
"tags": [
"US"
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "32 68",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "basketball: a play in which one player catches a pass while airborne and scores",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ponte aérea"
},
{
"_dis1": "32 68",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "allej-up",
"sense": "basketball: a play in which one player catches a pass while airborne and scores",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "аллей-уп"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈuːp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈup/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːp"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊp"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-alley oop.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "alley oop"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "allez-hop",
"4": "allez-hop!"
},
"expansion": "French allez-hop!",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "allez",
"3": "",
"4": "go! let's go!"
},
"expansion": "allez (“go! let's go!”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "aller"
},
"expansion": "aller",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "hop"
},
"expansion": "hop",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "onomatopoeic",
"name": "onomatopoeic"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "alley oop (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Sports",
"orig": "en:Sports",
"parents": [
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "19 16 3 9 23 21 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 20 1 6 19 20 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English onomatopoeias",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1957 November 4, Y.A. Tittle, Reno Evening Gazette, page 14",
"text": "I decided to go for the Alley-Oop pass. I knew I had to lay it in the end zone, high, and I just rared back and threw as hard as I could.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1959 January 21, “Oroville using ‘Alley Oop’ play”, in The Appeal–Democrat, page 6",
"text": "The Oroville Tigers have adapted the San Francisco '49er football team's famed... play to their own use on the basketball court.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"High and arcing."
],
"id": "en-alley_oop-en-adj-jP72R5vf",
"links": [
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"arcing",
"arcing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US sports) High and arcing."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Skateboarding",
"orig": "en:Skateboarding",
"parents": [
"Board sports",
"Sports",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Snowboarding",
"orig": "en:Snowboarding",
"parents": [
"Winter sports",
"Sports",
"Winter activities",
"Human activity",
"Winter",
"Human behaviour",
"Seasons",
"Human",
"Nature",
"Periodic occurrences",
"All topics",
"Time",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "19 16 3 9 23 21 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1989 November 29, The Guardian, Society, page 46",
"text": "Do you know what an ollie to frontside 50/50 is? A stale-grab Madonna? A smith-grind to revert? An alley-oop lipslide?... They are all gravity- or death-defying tricks.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Involving at least a 180-degree turn."
],
"id": "en-alley_oop-en-adj-ldj8DM6c",
"links": [
[
"skateboarding",
"skateboarding#Noun"
],
[
"snowboarding",
"snowboarding#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US skateboarding and snowboarding) Involving at least a 180-degree turn."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"skateboarding",
"snowboarding",
"sports"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈuːp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈup/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːp"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊp"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-alley oop.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "alley oop"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "allez-hop",
"4": "allez-hop!"
},
"expansion": "French allez-hop!",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "allez",
"3": "",
"4": "go! let's go!"
},
"expansion": "allez (“go! let's go!”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "aller"
},
"expansion": "aller",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "hop"
},
"expansion": "hop",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "onomatopoeic",
"name": "onomatopoeic"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "alley oops",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "alley ooping",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "alley ooped",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "alley ooped",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "alley oop (third-person singular simple present alley oops, present participle alley ooping, simple past and past participle alley ooped)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010, Mary B. Morrison, Somebody's Gotta Be On Top",
"text": "K'Nine intentionally bounced the last shot off the edge of the rim, rebounded, dribbled between his legs for three seconds, then alley ooped to Darius.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Daylin Eaton, The Chronicles of Tyson Jenkins: The Witch Sisters, page 107",
"text": "When the ball came back to Tyson, he alley ooped the ball to Larry, who layed it in.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To lift or toss upward, or to be lifted or tossed upward."
],
"id": "en-alley_oop-en-verb-DCm0S737",
"links": [
[
"lift",
"lift"
],
[
"toss",
"toss"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈuːp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈup/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːp"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊp"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-alley oop.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "alley oop"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English adverbs",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English onomatopoeias",
"English terms borrowed from French",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncomparable adverbs",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/uːp",
"Rhymes:English/uːp/3 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ʊp"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "allez-hop",
"4": "allez-hop!"
},
"expansion": "French allez-hop!",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "allez",
"3": "",
"4": "go! let's go!"
},
"expansion": "allez (“go! let's go!”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "aller"
},
"expansion": "aller",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "hop"
},
"expansion": "hop",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "onomatopoeic",
"name": "onomatopoeic"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "alley oop !",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "alley oop!"
},
"expansion": "alley oop!",
"name": "en-interj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1917 September 9, B.S. Walcott, letter printed in the 6 Feb. 1918 Princeton Alumni Weekly, p. 389",
"text": "I fortunately found a spark plug on the burn and got that repaired and alley oop!"
},
{
"ref": "1985, Kevin Eastman & al., Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. I, No. 4, page 2",
"text": "Allez--... --oop!\nBeautiful! Great flip Mike!"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Antoinette Stockenberg, A Month at the Shore, page 185",
"text": "‘Alley-oop,’ he said, and he lifted her out of her seat as easily as if she were a bag of laundry.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Encouraging or calling attention to a physical performance, especially one involving an upwards lift or leap."
],
"links": [
[
"upwards",
"upwards#English"
],
[
"lift",
"lift#English"
],
[
"leap",
"leap#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈuːp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈup/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːp"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊp"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-alley oop.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "get up!"
},
{
"word": "go on!"
},
{
"english": "encouraging",
"word": "come on!"
},
{
"word": "alley-oop"
},
{
"word": "alleyoop"
},
{
"word": "allez-oop"
},
{
"word": "allez oop"
},
{
"word": "allez-up"
},
{
"word": "ally-oop"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chāinǐwū",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "拆你屋"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "allez-hop"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "alley oop"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "áleï-oup",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "άλεϊ-ουπ"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "alle-óp",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "алле-о́п"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "allej-óp",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "аллей-о́п"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "alle-úp",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "алле-у́п"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "allej-úp",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "аллей-у́п"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "interjection",
"word": "a-lê-hấp"
}
],
"word": "alley oop"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English adverbs",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English onomatopoeias",
"English terms borrowed from French",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncomparable adverbs",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/uːp",
"Rhymes:English/uːp/3 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ʊp"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "allez-hop",
"4": "allez-hop!"
},
"expansion": "French allez-hop!",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "allez",
"3": "",
"4": "go! let's go!"
},
"expansion": "allez (“go! let's go!”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "aller"
},
"expansion": "aller",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "hop"
},
"expansion": "hop",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "onomatopoeic",
"name": "onomatopoeic"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "alley oop (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1923 November 8, The Daily Herald, page 4",
"text": "Down with the starched collars! Allez up with the soft!",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of up."
],
"links": [
[
"up",
"up#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) Synonym of up."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "up"
}
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈuːp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈup/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːp"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊp"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-alley oop.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "alley-oop"
},
{
"word": "alleyoop"
},
{
"word": "allez-oop"
},
{
"word": "allez oop"
},
{
"word": "allez-up"
},
{
"word": "ally-oop"
}
],
"word": "alley oop"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English adverbs",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English onomatopoeias",
"English terms borrowed from French",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncomparable adverbs",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/uːp",
"Rhymes:English/uːp/3 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ʊp"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "allez-hop",
"4": "allez-hop!"
},
"expansion": "French allez-hop!",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "allez",
"3": "",
"4": "go! let's go!"
},
"expansion": "allez (“go! let's go!”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "aller"
},
"expansion": "aller",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "hop"
},
"expansion": "hop",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "onomatopoeic",
"name": "onomatopoeic"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "alley oops",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "alley oop (plural alley oops)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1927, Wallace Smith, Are You Decent?, page 94",
"text": "Rollie says... we should cut out our ‘alley-oop’. He says: ‘It's vulgar, that alley-oop. Every small-time acrobat says “alley-oop”.’",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An instance of saying \"Alley oop!\""
],
"links": [
[
"instance",
"instance"
],
[
"Alley oop",
"#Interjection"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Basketball",
"en:Sports"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1965, Harold Rosenthal, The Big Play, page 71",
"text": "Owens helped beat the Chicago Bears with a catch he made in the end zone;... a week later he gathered in an Alley Oop from Tittle for a victory over Green Bay.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Snowboard Journal, number 10, page 29",
"text": "It was a mystery how he managed to ride at all with that set-up, let alone tweak alley-oops on this natural quarter pipe!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, National Basketball Association, \"Top Moments: Famous Alley-oop from Kobe to Shaq Caps Lakers' Comeback\"",
"text": "Kobe Bryant–to–Shaquille O'Neal alley-oops are among the most iconic and lasting NBA images of the early 2000s. The duo's alley-oop in Game 7 of the 2000 Western Conference finals stands above the rest, without a doubt."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A high and arcing pass, catch, or move, especially (basketball) a shot made by a player as part of the same jump used to catch a pass."
],
"links": [
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"pass",
"pass"
],
[
"catch",
"catch"
],
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"basketball",
"basketball"
],
[
"shot",
"shot"
],
[
"jump",
"jump"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US sports) A high and arcing pass, catch, or move, especially (basketball) a shot made by a player as part of the same jump used to catch a pass."
],
"tags": [
"US"
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈuːp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈup/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːp"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊp"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-alley oop.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "basketball: alley-oop play",
"word": "lob jam"
},
{
"word": "alley-oop"
},
{
"word": "alleyoop"
},
{
"word": "allez-oop"
},
{
"word": "allez oop"
},
{
"word": "allez-up"
},
{
"word": "ally-oop"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "basketball: a play in which one player catches a pass while airborne and scores",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ponte aérea"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "allej-up",
"sense": "basketball: a play in which one player catches a pass while airborne and scores",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "аллей-уп"
}
],
"word": "alley oop"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English adverbs",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English onomatopoeias",
"English terms borrowed from French",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncomparable adverbs",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/uːp",
"Rhymes:English/uːp/3 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ʊp"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "allez-hop",
"4": "allez-hop!"
},
"expansion": "French allez-hop!",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "allez",
"3": "",
"4": "go! let's go!"
},
"expansion": "allez (“go! let's go!”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "aller"
},
"expansion": "aller",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "hop"
},
"expansion": "hop",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "onomatopoeic",
"name": "onomatopoeic"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "alley oop (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Sports"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1957 November 4, Y.A. Tittle, Reno Evening Gazette, page 14",
"text": "I decided to go for the Alley-Oop pass. I knew I had to lay it in the end zone, high, and I just rared back and threw as hard as I could.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1959 January 21, “Oroville using ‘Alley Oop’ play”, in The Appeal–Democrat, page 6",
"text": "The Oroville Tigers have adapted the San Francisco '49er football team's famed... play to their own use on the basketball court.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"High and arcing."
],
"links": [
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"arcing",
"arcing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US sports) High and arcing."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Skateboarding",
"en:Snowboarding"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1989 November 29, The Guardian, Society, page 46",
"text": "Do you know what an ollie to frontside 50/50 is? A stale-grab Madonna? A smith-grind to revert? An alley-oop lipslide?... They are all gravity- or death-defying tricks.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Involving at least a 180-degree turn."
],
"links": [
[
"skateboarding",
"skateboarding#Noun"
],
[
"snowboarding",
"snowboarding#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US skateboarding and snowboarding) Involving at least a 180-degree turn."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"skateboarding",
"snowboarding",
"sports"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈuːp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈup/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːp"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊp"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-alley oop.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "alley-oop"
},
{
"word": "alleyoop"
},
{
"word": "allez-oop"
},
{
"word": "allez oop"
},
{
"word": "allez-up"
},
{
"word": "ally-oop"
}
],
"word": "alley oop"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English adverbs",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English onomatopoeias",
"English terms borrowed from French",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncomparable adverbs",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/uːp",
"Rhymes:English/uːp/3 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ʊp"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "allez-hop",
"4": "allez-hop!"
},
"expansion": "French allez-hop!",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "allez",
"3": "",
"4": "go! let's go!"
},
"expansion": "allez (“go! let's go!”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "aller"
},
"expansion": "aller",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "hop"
},
"expansion": "hop",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "onomatopoeic",
"name": "onomatopoeic"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "alley oops",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "alley ooping",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "alley ooped",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "alley ooped",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "alley oop (third-person singular simple present alley oops, present participle alley ooping, simple past and past participle alley ooped)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010, Mary B. Morrison, Somebody's Gotta Be On Top",
"text": "K'Nine intentionally bounced the last shot off the edge of the rim, rebounded, dribbled between his legs for three seconds, then alley ooped to Darius.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Daylin Eaton, The Chronicles of Tyson Jenkins: The Witch Sisters, page 107",
"text": "When the ball came back to Tyson, he alley ooped the ball to Larry, who layed it in.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To lift or toss upward, or to be lifted or tossed upward."
],
"links": [
[
"lift",
"lift"
],
[
"toss",
"toss"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈuːp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/al.ɪˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈup/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæl.iˈʊp/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːp"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊp"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-alley oop.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-alley_oop.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "alley-oop"
},
{
"word": "alleyoop"
},
{
"word": "allez-oop"
},
{
"word": "allez oop"
},
{
"word": "allez-up"
},
{
"word": "ally-oop"
}
],
"word": "alley oop"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.