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Layup
//ˈleɪˌʌp// noun, slang
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.
"Rockledge's Shanikqua Smith goes for a layup during Tuesday's game against Titusville."
- 2 a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard) wordnet
- 3 A relatively easy task. colloquial
"Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk."
- 4 The state of being laid up.
"The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month."
- 5 A track used to store train cars. countable, uncountable
"The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed."
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- 6 A train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight.
"Though I knew we shouldn't be there, she pulled me out of the tunnel and into the dark layup, its floors still grubby from the morning commute many hours ago."
- 7 The process of applying alternate layers of a material and a binding agent to form a composite material.
"Forgetting to clear the sawdust around his workshop, Payton ended up contaminating the resin-ply matrix with wood particles during his hand layup."
Etymology
From lay + up.
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