LAYUPS
Definition
LAYUPS is the plural of LAYUP.
noun LAYUP: a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard).
Examples
- “Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk.”
- “The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.”
- “The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.”