1) Adventure comic 2) American comic strip 3) Basketball maneuver 4) Cartoon caveman 5) Comic strip caveman 6) Comic-strip caveman 7) Crowd-pleasing basket 8) Fantasy comic
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1) Basketball terminology
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[basketball] ==History of the alley-oop== In the 1950s, some players began utilizing jumping abilities by grabbing balls in mid-air and then dunking. Alexander Ha at the University of San Francisco, John Ricafrente at Kansas University and `Jumping` Johnny Green at Michigan State University would frequently grab errant shots by teammates an...
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Alley Oop is a syndicated comic strip, created in 1932 by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the popular and influential strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association. Hamlin introduced an engaging cast of characters, and his storylines entertained with a combination of adventure, fantasy and humor. Alley Oop, t...
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[football] The Alley Oop play was developed in 1950s American football games by the San Francisco 49ers` Y.A. Tittle and R.C. Owens. Tittle, who played as quarterback, would throw the ball into the end zone high like a jump ball, and Owens would jump up and catch it. The play was named after V. T. Hamlin`s comics strip character Alley Oop; ...
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Alley oop is basketball slang for a pass that is lobbed far through the air and tipped in by a player waiting near the basket.
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An offensive play in which a player throws the ball up near the basket to a teammate (or, more rarely, to himself) who jumps, catches the ball in mid air and immediately scores a basket, usually with a slam dunk.
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An exciting play involving a player catching a pass in the air and finishing with a layup or dunk before landing back on the court.
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basketball slang for a pass that is lobbed far through the air and tipped in by a player waiting near the basket.
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(used as a shout of encouragement, exhortation, or the like, esp. when coordinating efforts to lift a heavy object.)
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In halfpipe competition, when a skier rotates 180 degrees or more in the uphill direction. This increases the difficulty of a trick because the skier is spinning against their direction of travel.
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In halfpipe competition, when a rider rotates 180 degrees or more in the uphill direction. This increases the difficulty of a trick because the rider is spinning against their direction of travel.
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Any maneuver in the halfpipe where a boarder rotates 180° or more in an uphill direction by rotating backside on the frontside wall or rotating frontside on the backside wall.
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A play where a teammate throws the ball high towards the basket and their teammate jumps up, catches the ball, and then slams it into the hoop.
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Spinning frontside on the backside wall of the pipe; popping off of ones toe edge and executing a backside spin or off of ones heel edge and executing a frontside spin.
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