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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.

Even then she expressed her scorn for the lubbery executioner’s mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a

shipshape

orthodox manner.

De Quincey.

Keep everything

shipshape

, for I must go

Tennyson.

adv.

In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.

shipshape ‎(comparative more shipshape, superlative most shipshape)

Meticulously neat and tidy
- 1937, Captains Courageous, 01:44:00:
  -- When are you going out fishing again? -- Oh, in about six weeks, when we're shipshape aloft.
Organized, serviceable, trained and ready for action