ship out
Britishverb
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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]
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Send, export, especially to a distant place, as in The factory shipped out many more orders last month . [Mid-1600s]
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Quit a job or be fired; see shape up , def. 3.
Example Sentences
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Charlie served at Fort Eustis, the transportation headquarters for the entire army, where all the soldiers would ship out for their assignments.
From Literature
He’d been too young to serve in World War II. He’d been hit with appendicitis just as he was about to ship out to the Korean War.
From Literature
That meant the ferry had to spend months in a dry dock, a narrow basin which is drained, leaving the ship out of the water and supported by blocks.
From BBC
The processing sites at the Altadena Golf Course and the former Topanga Ranch Motel on Pacific Coast Highway will remain open to sort, store and ship out waste found during the Army Corps clearance, Peterson said.
From Los Angeles Times
As big and as tough as Clement was in those early days, he was slowly chewed up by the pressure of trying to steer the ship out of the dock when it was already tied to the harbour wall.
From BBC
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