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A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.
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A relatively easy task.
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Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk.
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The state of being laid up.
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The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.
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A track used to store train cars.
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The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.
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A train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight.
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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.
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The process of applying alternate layers of a material and a binding agent to form a composite material.
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Forgetting to clear the sawdust around his workshop, Payton ended up contaminating the resin-ply matrix with wood particles during his hand layup.