| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| alley-oop |
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| SYLLABICATION: | al·ley-oop |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   l  - p |
| NOUN: | Basketball 1. A play in which a pass is lobbed above the basket and a player jumps up and attempts to catch the ball and score before returning to the floor. 2. The pass made in such a play. | | INTERJECTION: | Used to signal the start of a strenuous activity, such as lifting. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French allez-oop, cry of circus acrobat about to leap, from allez, pl. imperative of aller, to go, from Old French aler, to walk. See alley1.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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