alley-oop
巷战,巷球,巷道球,小球
Definitions
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- : Basketball. a quick-score play in which a high, arching pass is made to a teammate close to the basket, who leaps to catch the ball and in midair drops or stuffs it through the basket.
Examples
The picture you took of the boy lying in the alley also seemed to strike a chord.
The meeting place of human rights and criminal justice in Iran is like a dark and frightening alley.
The alley cat and her kittens would have mugged him already.
He said his cousin had been found dead in an alley and he had to rush home.
It had rained while we were inside and the air in the alley smelled almost fresh.
Truly it was a most enjoyable season and experience, but there is no joy without its alley here below—not even at the North Pole!
He turned into an alley, down which, nautically speaking, he rolled into a shabby little court.
I turned right into a narrow street, went along it about fifty yards, and paused where it was crossed by a still narrower alley.
From the set of his shoulders, it seemed that he might be just as glad the alley was dim; but he simply trailed along behind.
I cannot put my own case to the Admiralty although the machines are wanted for overland tactics—a fatal blind alley.