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Alley-oop
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a basketball play where one player throws the ball near the basket, and a teammate jumps, catches it mid-air, and scores, usually with a dunk or a layup
Informal
Specialized
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
alley-oops
Examples
The crowd went wild after the incredible alley-oop dunk.
