英语词汇alley-oop的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

alley-oop. This interjection may have been coined by Ameri- can soldiers during World War I, for it sounds like the French allez (“you go”) plus a French pronunciation of the English up—hence allez oop, “up you go.” During the 1920s allez-oop (often spelled alley-oop) was a common interjection said upon lifting something. The expression became so popular that a caveman comic strip character was named Alley Oop. Soon al- ley-oop became a basketball term for a high pass made to a player near the basket, who then leaps to catch the ball and, in midair, stuffs it in the basket. In the late 1950s, San Francisco 49er quarterback Y. A. Tittle invented a lob pass called the al- ley-oop which was thrown over the heads of defenders to tall, former basketball player R. C. Owens.

词汇	alley-oop
词源	alley-oop. This interjection may have been coined by Ameri- can soldiers during World War I, for it sounds like the French allez (“you go”) plus a French pronunciation of the English up—hence allez oop, “up you go.” During the 1920s allez-oop (often spelled alley-oop) was a common interjection said upon lifting something. The expression became so popular that a caveman comic strip character was named Alley Oop. Soon al- ley-oop became a basketball term for a high pass made to a player near the basket, who then leaps to catch the ball and, in midair, stuffs it in the basket. In the late 1950s, San Francisco 49er quarterback Y. A. Tittle invented a lob pass called the al- ley-oop which was thrown over the heads of defenders to tall, former basketball player R. C. Owens.
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