Usually means: Basketball shot close to basket.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word layup:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. layup: Merriam-Webster
  2. layup: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. layup: Collins English Dictionary
  4. layup: Vocabulary.com
  5. Layup, layup: Wordnik
  6. layup: Wiktionary
  7. layup: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. layup: Dictionary.com
  9. Layup: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. layup: Rhymezone
  11. layup: FreeDictionary.org
  12. layup: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. layup: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Layup: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. Layup: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. layup: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. layup: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (layup)

noun:  (basketball) A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.
noun:  (colloquial) A relatively easy task.
noun:  The state of being laid up.
noun:  (rail transport, countable or uncountable) A track used to store train cars.
noun:  (rail transport) A train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight.
noun:  (materials science) The process of applying alternate layers of a material and a binding agent to form a composite material.

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