Lay-Up
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- lay-uplayup
- alternatephrasing
- Layup
- plural
- Lay-Ups
- possessive
- Lay-Up's
- pluralpossessive
- Lay-Ups'