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Easy basketball score
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layup
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A layup in basketball is a two-point shot attempt made by leaping from below, laying the ball up near the basket, and using one hand to bounce it off the backboard and into the basket. The motion and one-handed reach distinguish it from a jump shot . The ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context basketball English) A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away. 2 (context colloquial English) A relatively easy task.
Usage examples of layup.
One of the mothballed heavy cruisers over in the west yard had settled right to the bottom over the period of a month, flooding out the opened steam turbines and eight boilers left opened under a dry layup.
They tracked him down finally aboard a wooden-hulled minesweeper in Dry Dock Four that was being prepared for decommissioning and layup.