Alley-Oop

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:29:39AM -0400, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> The July 1926 "burger" cite from the Penn State Collegian also has "Alley
> Oop" as a diner interjection.  (It appeared as "Alleyoop" in a Collegian
> article earlier that month about the opening of the same diner.)
>
> I don't see "alley-oop" in OED

The OED entry should appear in the next batch, I think, and follows
your post almost word for word. We did have another 1923 quote, in
the rare adverbial sense as 'up':

1923 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Herald 8 Nov. 4/3 Down with the
starched collars! Allez up with the soft!

Jesse Sheidlower
OED