英:[ˌælɪ'u:p]
美:[ˌælɪ'up]
英:[ˌælɪ'u:p]
美:[ˌælɪ'up]
noun
basketball a play in which a leaping player catches a pass above the basket and immediately dunks the ballalso: the usually high, arcing pass thrown on such a play He threw an alley-oop to George Lynch on a fast break … —The New York Times
The meeting of man and ball was dazzling, the two handed alley-oop slam-dunk spectacular.—Shelly Smith
American football a play in which the quarterback throws a high, arcing pass into the end zone to be caught by a leaping receiveralso: the pass itself … an alley-oop pass to Chandler from Manning gave the Saints a 13-7 lead. —Larry McMillen … he … tossed an alley-oop to Tate Casey for the first touchdown pass of his college career. —USA Today
Quarterback Moore hooked up with receiver Moore on one of their patented alley-oops to make the score 20-7.—Austin Murphy
noun
basketball a play in which a leaping player catches a pass above the basket and immediately dunks the ballalso: the usually high, arcing pass thrown on such a play He threw an alley-oop to George Lynch on a fast break … —The New York Times
The meeting of man and ball was dazzling, the two handed alley-oop slam-dunk spectacular.—Shelly Smith
American football a play in which the quarterback throws a high, arcing pass into the end zone to be caught by a leaping receiveralso: the pass itself … an alley-oop pass to Chandler from Manning gave the Saints a 13-7 lead. —Larry McMillen … he … tossed an alley-oop to Tate Casey for the first touchdown pass of his college career. —USA Today
Quarterback Moore hooked up with receiver Moore on one of their patented alley-oops to make the score 20-7.—Austin Murphy
alteration of allez-oop, cry of a circus acrobat about to leap, probably from French allez, 2nd person plural imperative of aller to go + English -oop, perhaps alteration of up
The first known use of alley-oop was in 1965
1 Doncic delivered the dagger a minute later as Mike Conley tried to throw up an alley-oop lob to Gobert, but it was picked off by Doncic.
2 Draymond Green stonewalled Zion Williamson inside before tossing an alley-oop off the glass to Trayce Jackson-Davis.
3 New Orleans led 98-89 at the end of the third quarter and blew the game open early in the fourthMcCollum hit a 3-pointer to put New Orleans up 118-100 and Cody Zeller threw down an alley-oop dunk to push the lead to 20, sending thousands of fans to the exits with 6:48 remaining.
4 Then Rosero and Memo Rodriguez teamed up for what felt like an alley-oop off a corner kick.
5 Swatting George’s first-quarter jumper and throwing down a nifty fast-break alley-oop from Tre Mann over him certainly proved that.
6 Fox opened the fourth quarter with another 3 and then threw down an alley-oop dunk from Malik Monk off a steal from Ellis.
7 Three straight buckets from the rookie, including an alley-oop flush from Chris Paul, helped cut the Warriors’ deficit to single digits.
8 Arkansas State took its first lead of the game at 18-17 on an alley-oop dunk by Nelson that was assisted by Fields at the 11:27 mark of the first half.