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Noun: layup  'ley`úp
  1. A basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)
    - lay-up
Verb: lay up
  1. Disable or confine, as with an illness
    "She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks"

Derived forms: laying up, lays up, lay-ups, layups, laid up

Type of: basketball shot, disable, disenable, incapacitate

Encyclopedia: Lay up

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