layup
Noun
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Noun
layup (plural layups)
- (basketball) A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.
- (colloquial) A relatively easy task.
- Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk.
- The state of being laid up.
- The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.
- (rail transport, countable or uncountable) A track used to store train cars.
- The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.
- (rail transport) A 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.
- (materials science) The 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.
- reverse layup
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