ship out
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verb
(adverb) to depart or cause to depart by shipwe shipped out at dawn; they shipped out the new recruits
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Words nearby ship out
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Other Idioms and Phrases with ship out
ship out
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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