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Definition of Shipshape
1. Adjective. Of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder. "A trim little sailboat"
Definition of Shipshape
1. a. Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.
2. adv. In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
Definition of Shipshape
1. Adjective. meticulously neat and tidy ¹
2. Adjective. Organized, serviceable, trained and ready for action ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shipshape
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipshape
Literary usage of Shipshape
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Fig. ю shows the stream lines for a very thin glycerine sheet passing a non-shipshape
body, the stream lines being practically perfect. Fig. ..."
2. A Word a Day, Grades 1-3 by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Susan Rose Simms, Sarita Chavez Silverman, Evan-Moor Corporation (2002)
"shipshape adjective If something is clean, neat, and in order, it's shipshape.
agony noun ... We don't get our weekly allowance until our room is shipshape. ..."
3. The Game of Life and Death: Stories of the Sea by Lincoln Colcord (1914)
"Do a shipshape job. D'you know what shipshape means?' " 'No,' says he. ...
'shipshape,' says I, 'is neat, handy, and proper, the way things is done aboard ..."
4. Battles Royal Down North by Norman Duncan (1918)
""Jus' t' put it shipshape." "What you mean, Jimmie? ... "You wasn't— you wasn't
thinkin' o' puttin' things shipshape, was you—shipshape for—for me? ..."
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