shipshape
in good order; well-arranged; trim or tidy.
in a shipshape manner.
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How to use shipshape in a sentence
They were the only detail on the entire vessel that didn’t feel perfectly shipshape and squared away.
What it’s like to rescue someone at sea from a Coast Guard helicopter | Rob Verger | July 20, 2021 | Popular-ScienceShe loved a tidy house full of bright, beautiful objects like Crown Derby china, with everything neat and shipshape.
Lady Thatcher in Full: Charles Moore on Writing Her Biography | Matthew Walther | June 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut what I want to ask is that you and Martha Macauley will come over and see that the table looks shipshape.
Red Pepper Burns | Grace S. RichmondIn him no laxity inhered, no falling away from the strict tenets of shipshape neatness.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandHe had taught him to keep his little room—his little first mates cabin, as he had always called it—very shipshape.
Cursed | George Allan England
The cargo's out, Scraggsy, my son, the decks has been washed down an' everything in my department is shipshape.
Captain Scraggs | Peter B. KyneBy Herculean efforts the four ladies and myself got the place shipshape, and all was finished when the daylight failed.
South African Memories | Lady Sarah Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for shipshape
/ (ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp) /
neat; orderly
in a neat and orderly manner
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