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Meaning of layup
noun
- A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.
- A relatively easy task. Example: Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk.
- The state of being laid up. Example: The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.
- A track used to store train cars. Example: The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.
- A train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight. Example: 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.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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