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English Dictionary: shipshape by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shipshape
adj
  1. of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat"
    Synonym(s): shipshape, trim, well-kept
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shipshape \Ship"shape`\, adv.
      In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shipshape \Ship"shape`\, a.
      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.
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