SHIP-shape, in a seaman-like manner; as "That mast is not rigged ship-shape;" "Put her about ship-shape," &c.]

[G]lad to see you, gentlemen—steerage not quite shipshape at present—overhauling ship, you see; but when we once get under way, get things shipshape, you know.

― When are you going out fishing again? / ― Oh, in about six weeks, when we're shipshape aloft.

Having made sure everything is shipshape, the colonel goes back to the controls and starts to bring the plane down.

[Y]ou got the downhaul to keep him in place real snug like. Otherwise it just ain't shipshape. Hell, everybody knows that.

Dr. Marks said I'm shipshape. Those were his exact words. Or maybe he said tip-top. It was something alliterative.

I have said a good deal about Bertha, because I like her frank, easy way, her desire to please, and her pleasant natural manner of doing it. I do n't think novel-writers and picture-makers say enough about such girls. … Those are the girls, Ma'am, whom I want to see described by people who know how to do this sort of thing up shipshape.

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