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ollie¹

  • /ˈɒli/

Where it comes from

From Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname.

noun ollies

  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 […]

verb ollies · ollieing · ollied

  1. intransitive To perform an ollie. He used the tilted side as a ramp, grabbed some air, fakied down, and ollied back onto level ground.

Ollie²

Where it comes from

From Germanic, from Latin olivarius (“olive tree”) (from oliva (“olive”)), and from Welsh.

proper noun

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Oliver, from French [in turn from Latin, in turn from Germanic].
  2. 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 diminutive of the female given names Olivia and Olive, from Latin [in turn from Etruscan, in turn from Greek].
  4. A diminutive of the female given name Olwen, from Welsh.
  5. derogatory A male orphan.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: psst, nollie, nosegrab, cork, method, pop shove-it, eskimo roll, kickout, aerial skiing, big air, acid drop, aerials, impossible, lipslide, underflip, layback

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@misc{ollie_2026,
  title = {ollie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ollie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}