shipshape

[ ship-sheyp ]

adjective

1. in good order; well-arranged; trim or tidy.

adverb

1. in a shipshape manner.

shipshape

/ ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp /

adjective

1. neat; orderly

adverb

1. in a neat and orderly manner

Word History and Origins

Origin of shipshape¹

First recorded in 1635–45; ship ¹ + shape

Example Sentences

They were the only detail on the entire vessel that didn’t feel perfectly shipshape and squared away.

From Popular-Science

She loved a tidy house full of bright, beautiful objects like Crown Derby china, with everything neat and shipshape.

From The Daily Beast

But what I want to ask is that you and Martha Macauley will come over and see that the table looks shipshape.

From Project Gutenberg

In him no laxity inhered, no falling away from the strict tenets of shipshape neatness.

From Project Gutenberg

He had taught him to keep his little room—his little first mates cabin, as he had always called it—very shipshape.

From Project Gutenberg

The cargo's out, Scraggsy, my son, the decks has been washed down an' everything in my department is shipshape.

From Project Gutenberg

By Herculean efforts the four ladies and myself got the place shipshape, and all was finished when the daylight failed.

From Project Gutenberg