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What is "lay-up"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lay-up
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A lay-up, it should be said, was jargon for a gamble that was sure to succeed.
▪ First, Henderson forced Fowlkes to miss a lay-up by slapping at the ball.
▪ With 58 seconds left, Cameron Dollar hit Henderson with a no-look pass for a lay-up.
Wiktionary
lay-up

n. (context basketball English) (alternative form of layup English)

WordNet
lay-up

n. a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard) [syn: layup]

Usage examples of "lay-up".

The patrol had only a relatively short distance to cover to their preselected lay-up point.

I faked left and moved right without the ball and Chuck hit me with a perfect bounce pass that led to an easy lay-up.

So he made baskets, and walked around getting out the kinks from an afternoon spent behind an acetylene torch, passed to the others and received passes from them, loped in for almost gentle lay-ups, or raised one knee lifting off his other toe for drowsy hook shots, and he felt okay, flipping his cigarette away only when it threatened to burn his lips and lighting another almost immediately.