layup

noun

1. basketballA close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.

2. colloquialA relatively easy task.

   “Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk.”

3. The state of being laid up.

   “The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.”

4. rail transportA track used to store train cars.

   “The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.”

5. rail transportA train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight.

   “Though I knew we shouldn't be there, she pulled me out of the tunnel and into the dark layup, its floors still grubby from the morning commute many hours ago.”

6. materials scienceThe process of applying alternate layers of a material and a binding agent to form a composite material.

   “Forgetting to clear the sawdust around his workshop, Payton ended up contaminating the resin-ply matrix with wood particles during his hand layup.”

7. A basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)

   Similar: lay-up