layup

noun7

1. •
   A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.

   • Rockledge's Shanikqua Smith goes for a layup during Tuesday's game against Titusville. — 2014
2. •
   (informal) A relatively easy task.

   • Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk.
3. •
   The state of being laid up.

   • The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.
4. •
   The process of applying alternate layers of a material and a binding agent to form a composite material.

   • Forgetting to clear the sawdust around his workshop, Payton ended up contaminating the resin-ply matrix with wood particles during his hand layup.
5. •
   A track used to store train cars.

   • The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.
6. •
   (slang) A side track, tunnel, or elevated structure where idle trains park during off-peak hours, overnight, or on weekend; a targeted spot because the stationary trains give them enough time to paint large pieces.
7. •
   A train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight.

   • Though I knew we shouldn't be there, she pulled me out of the tunnel and into the dark layup, its floors still grubby from the morning commute many hours ago.