Layup

Quick meaning: Layup is a noun meaning (basketball) A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.

Meaning

(basketball) A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.

More Meanings

1. (colloquial) A relatively easy task.
2. The state of being laid up.
3. (rail transport, countable or uncountable) A track used to store train cars.
4. (rail transport) A train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight.
5. (materials science) The process of applying alternate layers of a material and a binding agent to form a composite material.

Example Sentences

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.

Rockledge's Shanikqua Smith goes for a layup during Tuesday's game against Titusville.

The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.

Word Forms

• layups
• lay-up

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lay-up, lay-in, layin, fallaway, floater, halfcourt.

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