layup, lay-up
(noun) a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
layup (plural layups)
(basketball) A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.
(colloquial) A relatively easy task.
The state of being laid up.
(rail transport, countable or uncountable) A track used to store train cars.
(rail transport) A train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight.
(materials science) The process of applying alternate layers of a material and a binding agent to form a composite material.
• Pauly, uplay
Source: Wiktionary
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
