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/ˈleɪˌʌp/ · noun
(basketball) 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.
Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk.
The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.
The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.
The City Hall station on the BMT line [...] has a lower level that was never put into service. Yet the platforms have been maintained, are well illuminated, and serve as a layup and storage area for the MTA.
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.
A nonmoving empty train, or a layup, was easiest to pin down at night or on weekends when trains would park on the dormant stretches of express tracks.
Forgetting to clear the sawdust around his workshop, Payton ended up contaminating the resin-ply matrix with wood particles during his hand layup.
Use lay up when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lay up means (basketball) A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away..
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Rockledge's Shanikqua Smith goes for a layup during Tuesday's game against Titusville.
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