lay-up

Speech parts

1. lay-up - Noun

2. lay-up - Verb

Meaning

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

disable or confine, as with an illness

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

lay up

Synonyms

layup mass garner keep reserve stock store save evil suffering ill disorder illness collect trouble
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Antonyms

health treatment blue benefit relief confidence
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Hypernyms

disable incapacitate disenable basketball shot

Examples

I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up. Elinor Lipman

She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks Source: Internet

After Holešínská continued the lay-up drill, pushing UNC’s lead to 71-48, Hillsman called a timeout. Source: Internet

A large female can lay up to 500,000 eggs, and no care is given by the parents to the eggs or fry. Source: Internet

Denise can also lay up to eight 16 pixel wide sprites per scan line (in automatic mode) on top, underneath, or between playfields, and detect collisions between sprites and the playfields or between sprites. Source: Internet

Rajon Rondo's lay-up tied the score and Caruso tallied five points in 27 seconds to give the Lakers an 88-79 advantage with 8:34 to play. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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