Layups

noun

1. A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.
2. 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. A track used to store train cars.

   "The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed."

5. 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."