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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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