lay-up

Questions about lay-up

What is another word for lay-up?

It depends which lay-up you mean. In the sense “a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)”, the synonyms are layup. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of lay-up?

WordNet records no antonym for lay-up. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for lay-up come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of lay-up

• Full entry for lay-upAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for lay-upWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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