SHAPE UP meaning: Improve or develop performance, behavior

We found 21 dictionaries that define the word shape up:

General (18 matching dictionaries)

shape up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shape-up, shape up: Merriam-Webster
shape up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
shape up: Collins English Dictionary
shape-up, shape up: Vocabulary.com
Shape-Up, shape-up: Wordnik
shape up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
shape up: Wiktionary
shape-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
shape-up: Infoplease Dictionary
shape-up, shape up: Dictionary.com
Shape-Up, Shape Up (video game), Shape up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
shape-up, shape up: Rhymezone
shape-up, shape up: FreeDictionary.org
shape-up, shape up: Mnemonic Dictionary
shape-up, shape up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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shape up: Encyclopedia

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shape up: Idioms

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Shape up, shape-up, shape up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shape up)

▸ verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To improve; to correct one's bad habits or behavior.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To take shape; to transform into or become.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, slang) To gesture or posture threateningly; to approach as if to fight; to pose to intimidate.

Opposite:

deteriorate, decline, degenerate, weaken, degrade

Types:

pentagon, hexagon, octagon, triangle, square, rectangle, circle, oval, more...

Phrases:

shape up or ship out, shape that tapers up and out, to shape up, more...

Adjectives:

set, side, sussed, put up, elate, overture, right, upmarket, uplevel, perk, pushing

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