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shipshape
[ ship-sheyp ]
adjective
- in good order; well-arranged; trim or tidy.
adverb
- in a shipshape manner.
shipshape
/ ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp /
adjective
- neat; orderly
adverb
- in a neat and orderly manner
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shipshape1
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Example Sentences
She loved a tidy house full of bright, beautiful objects like Crown Derby china, with everything neat and shipshape.
But what I want to ask is that you and Martha Macauley will come over and see that the table looks shipshape.
In him no laxity inhered, no falling away from the strict tenets of shipshape neatness.
He had taught him to keep his little room—his little first mates cabin, as he had always called it—very shipshape.
The cargo's out, Scraggsy, my son, the decks has been washed down an' everything in my department is shipshape.
By Herculean efforts the four ladies and myself got the place shipshape, and all was finished when the daylight failed.
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