Usually means: Organized and tidy; in order.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word Shipshape:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. shipshape: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shipshape: Merriam-Webster
  3. shipshape: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shipshape: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shipshape: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shipshape: Vocabulary.com
  7. shipshape: Wordnik
  8. shipshape: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shipshape: Wiktionary
  10. shipshape: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shipshape: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shipshape: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shipshape: Dictionary.com
  14. Shipshape: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. shipshape: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. shipshape: Rhymezone
  17. Shipshape: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. shipshape: FreeDictionary.org
  19. shipshape: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. shipshape: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shipshape: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shipshape: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shipshape)

▸ adjective:  (originally nautical) Meticulously neat and tidy.
▸ adverb:  (originally nautical) Neatly and tidily to a meticulous extent.

Similar:
trim, tidy, well-kept, taut, clean, orderly, shapely, clever, well-groomed, neat and tidy, more...

Opposite:
scruffy, untidy, messy

Types:
tidy, neat, neat and tidy, neat as a pin, more...

Phrases:
shipshape and Bristol fashion, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, real, whole, new, old, good, regular

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Similar:
trim, tidy, well-kept, taut, clean, orderly, shapely, clever, well-groomed, neat and tidy, more...

Opposite:
scruffy, untidy, messy

Types:
tidy, neat, neat and tidy, neat as a pin, more...

Phrases:
shipshape and Bristol fashion, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, real, whole, new, old, good, regular



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