alley-oop

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
alley-oop/aliˈuːp/

▶exclamation used to encourage or draw attention to an acrobatic feat. ▶noun (also alley-oop pass) Basketball a high pass caught by a leaping teammate who tries to dunk the ball before landing.

– origin early 20th cent.: perh. from Fr. allez! ‘go on!’ + a supposedly French pronunc. of up.

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