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SHIPSHAPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shipshape mean? 

SHIPSHAPE (adjective)
  The adjective SHIPSHAPE has 1 sense:

1. of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorderplay

  Familiarity information: SHIPSHAPE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHIPSHAPE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder

Synonyms:

shipshape; trim; well-kept

Context example:

a trim little sailboat

Similar:

tidy (marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits)


 Context examples 


All well, I hope; all shipshape and seaworthy?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“I would set no limits to what gentlemen might consider shipshape, or might not, as the case were. And seein' as how you are about to take a pipe, cap'n, I'll make so free as do likewise.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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