Usually means: Basketball shot close to basket.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. lay-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. lay-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. lay-up: Vocabulary.com
  4. lay-up: Wordnik
  5. lay-up: Wiktionary
  6. Lay-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. lay-up: Rhymezone
  8. lay-up: FreeDictionary.org
  9. lay-up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. lay-up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. lay-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. lay-up: Dictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lay-up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lay-up: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lay-up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Lay-up: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  2. Lay-up: Fiberglass Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Lay-up)

noun:  (basketball) Alternative form of layup. [(basketball) A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.]

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