Usually means: Improve behavior or leave immediately.
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  1. shape up or ship out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Shape up or ship out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. shape up or ship out: Wiktionary

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verb:  (idiomatic) To either improve one's behavior or else be required to leave; to either improve one's performance in an activity or else withdraw from that activity completely.

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