shipshape

They were the only detail on the entire vessel that didn’t feel perfectly shipshape and squared away.
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She loved a tidy house full of bright, beautiful objects like Crown Derby china, with everything neat and shipshape.
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But 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. Richmond
In him no laxity inhered, no falling away from the strict tenets of shipshape neatness.
Cursed|George Allan England

He had taught him to keep his little room—his little first mates cabin, as he had always called it—very shipshape.
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The cargo's out, Scraggsy, my son, the decks has been washed down an' everything in my department is shipshape.
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By Herculean efforts the four ladies and myself got the place shipshape, and all was finished when the daylight failed.
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British Dictionary definitions for shipshape

shipshape

/ (ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp) /

adjective

neat; orderly

adverb

in a neat and orderly manner

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