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vb. (present participle of shape up English)
Wikipedia
Shaping Up is an American sitcom created by writer-producers Sam Simon and Ken Estin, which ran for five weeks on ABC. The show was cancelled despite being a top 10 hit.
Shaping Up is a mini-LP by The Sherbs released in 1982.
Usage examples of "shaping up".
There was a mudhole shaping up where the watering trough stood, and in front of Dad Jenn’.
But I was a little schizo about it, because I could feel that there were things shaping up at REF-Tirol that the Folks Back Home would need to know about, too.
But that knowledge would get sadly in the way of shaping up such a story as this.
All of them seem to believe that there is a confrontation shaping up between this man and ourselves, and that Flagg will stick at nothing to bring us down.
The situation that appeared to be shaping up was not one in which I wanted to be unarmed.