Layup

//ˈleɪˌʌp// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard) wordnet
  3. 3
    A relatively easy task. colloquial

    "Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk."

  4. 4
    The state of being laid up.

    "The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month."

  5. 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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  1. 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."

  2. 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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