Definitions for: Shipshape


[adj] of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.


Ship"shape`, adv.
In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.

Synonyms: tidy, trim, well-kept

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