Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lay_up

1 sense of lay-up

Sense 1
lay-up, layup -- (a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard))
       => basketball shot -- (throwing the basketball toward the hoop; "his shot hit the rim and bounced out")
                                                                         

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb lay_up

1 sense of lay up

Sense 1
lay up -- (disable or confine, as with an illness; "She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks")
       => disable, disenable, incapacitate -- (make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer")