Meaning of lay up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To store; to put by.
   transitive
2. To disable or incapacitate; to confine to bed.
   transitive
3. To recuperate or rest; to remain in a place.
   intransitive
4. To take out of active service.
   transitive
5. To go out of active service.
   intransitive
6. To make a layup with (a basketball)
   transitive
7. To deliberately leave the ball further than necessary from the hole, so as to secure an easier succeeding shot.
   intransitive
8. To have sex; to have a sexual relationship.
   US, slang

Examples

“We must lay up enough stores to get us through the winter.”

“I employed myself in making, as well as I could, a great many baskets, both to carry earth or to carry or lay up anything, as I had occasion; and though I did not finish them very handsomely, yet I made them sufficiently serviceable for my purpose[…]”

“He was laid up for six weeks with pneumonia.”

“He laid up until recovering from his illness.”

“She's been laid up in Reno for weeks.”

“The battleship is presently laid up in Portsmouth Harbour.”

“The cruise ship lays up in November for the winter.”

“The Cinderella of the present trio is the Freshwater, which is laid up in the winter months, when one or other of her ugly sisters is sufficient to cope with the service.”

“He takes the pass, he drives, he lays it up and in.”

“Rather than try to reach the green, he chose to lay up.”

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