ship out

verb

1. (adverb) to depart or cause to depart by ship

   we shipped out at dawn

   they shipped out the new recruits

Idioms and Phrases

Leave, especially for a distant place, as in The transport planes carried troops shipping out to the Mediterranean . Although this usage originally meant “depart by ship,” the expression is no longer limited to that mode of travel. [c. 1900]

Send, export, especially to a distant place, as in The factory shipped out many more orders last month . [Mid-1600s]

Quit a job or be fired; see shape up , def. 3.

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