layup

Plural: layups

Noun

• A basketball shot made close to the basket.
• a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)
• A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.
• A relatively easy task.
• The state of being laid up.
• A track used to store train cars.
• A train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight.
• The process of applying alternate layers of a material and a binding agent to form a composite material.

Examples

• Forgetting to clear the sawdust around his workshop, Payton ended up contaminating the resin-ply matrix with wood particles during his hand layup.
• Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk.
• Playing ’ZAX’ on the double-letter seemed like a LAYUP, but it secured him the win.
• The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.
• The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.
• 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.

Synonyms

lay-up

Related Words

reverse layup, slam dunk