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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lay-up
a basketball shot made close to the basket and often angled off the backboard.

Etymology: (1940–45)

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1. (verb) lay-up, layup
a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)

2. (verb) lay up
disable or confine, as with an illness
"She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks"

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