Crossword clues for shipshape
shipshape
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shipshape \Ship"shape`\, adv. In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 meticulously neat and tidy 2 organized, serviceable, trained and ready for action
WordNet
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Usage examples of "shipshape".
People around town remembered the days when Sebastian had kept his place shipshape, when petunias had flowered in the beds beneath the front windows, when the anchor that lay scuttled in the soil of the front yard had been kept a glistening white.
There was the UPS driver who delivered parts to the Shipshape Chandlery, a slightly plump man in his early forties.
Aloft the hempen cordage had been gathered in, the standing gear all shipshape, most of the running hardened home to pin rails or belays.
But apart from that, sir, and the forward chain-pump choked, foretop halliards badly chafed, and bowsprit gammoning not what it might be, everything is shipshape, tolerably shipshape.
But good janitors were like gold dust, and the Brill brothers had been keeping the building spotless and shipshape for nearly two years now.
You know, I could work my butt off, cleaning my room for him, making it shipshape, and he would focus on the one spot of dust I'd missed.
He feels fine and tells me the Nereus is shipshape and Bristol fashion once again.
It was all there, all present and correct, all shipshape and Bristol fashion, all just waiting for the off.
When this is all shipshape and Bristol fashion, to everyone's satisfaction, I still say we should go out looking for your boojums.
It was certainly not from her appearance, for although everything aboard was unexceptionally shipshape and man-of-war fashion, there was no extraordinary show of perfection, indeed nothing extraordinary at all, apart from her huge yards and her white manila cordage: her hull and portlids were painted dull grey, with an ochre streak for the gun-tier, her thirty-eight guns were chocolate-coloured, and the only obvious piece of brass was her bell, which shone like burnished gold.