lay-up

or lay·up

[ ley-uhp ]

noun
  1. Basketball. a shot with one hand from a point close to the basket, in which a player shoots the ball toward the basket, often off the backboard.

  2. the operation of assembling veneers for pressing into plywood.

  1. the operation of applying alternate layers of material and a binder to form a bonded material.

Origin of lay-up

1
First recorded in 1940–45; noun use of verb phrase lay up

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British Dictionary definitions for lay up

lay up

verb(tr, adverb)
  1. to store or reserve for future use

  2. (usually passive) informal to incapacitate or confine through illness

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Other Idioms and Phrases with lay-up

lay-up

see laid up; lay in.

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