layup

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.

A relatively easy task.

Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk.

The state of being laid up.

The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.

A track used to store train cars.

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

The City Hall station on the BMT line [...] has a lower level that was never put into service. Yet the platforms have been maintained, are well illuminated, and serve as a layup and storage area for the MTA.

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.

A nonmoving empty train, or a layup, was easiest to pin down at night or on weekends when trains would park on the dormant stretches of express tracks.