or lay·up. Basketball. a shot with one hand from a point close to the basket, in which a player shoots the ball toward the basket, often off the backboard.

What do you mean by layup?

1 : the action of laying up or the condition of being laid up. 2 : a shot in basketball made from near the basket usually by playing the ball off the backboard.

How do you use layup in a sentence?

n. a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard). 1) The next day they lay up in a cave. 2) The escaped prisoners lay up in a barn for a few weeks, until the search had been called off.