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layup
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also lay-up , "temporary period out of work," 1927, from lay (v.) + up (adv.). Basketball shot so called from 1948.
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard) [syn: lay-up ]
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.