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shipshape


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shipshape  \Ship"shape`\,  a. 
  Arranged  in  a  manner  befitting  a  ship;  hence  trim;  tidy; 
  orderly. 
 
  Even  then  she  expressed  her  scorn  for  the  lubbery 
  executioner's  mode  of  tying  a  knot,  and  did  it  herself 
  in  a  shipshape  orthodox  manner.  --De  Quincey. 
 
  Keep  everything  shipshape,  for  I  must  go  --Tennyson. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shipshape  \Ship"shape`\,  adv 
  In  a  shipshape  or  seamanlike  manner. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  shipshape 
  adj  :  of  places;  characterized  by  order  and  neatness;  free  from 
  disorder;  "even  the  barn  was  shipshape";  "a  trim  little 
  sailboat"  [syn:  {trim},  {well-kept}] 




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