SHAPE-UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shape-up mean? 

• SHAPE-UP (noun)
  The noun SHAPE-UP has 1 sense:

1. a way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired

  Familiarity information: SHAPE-UP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHAPE-UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("shape-up" is a kind of...):

employment; engagement (the act of giving someone a job)