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[syn: shipshape, trim, well-kept]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shipshape \Ship"shape`\, adv.
In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shipshape \Ship"shape`\, a.
Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy;
orderly.
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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.
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Keep everything shipshape, for I must go --Tennyson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
shipshape
adj 1: of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from
disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little
sailboat" [syn: shipshape, trim, well-kept]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "shipshape":
all ataunto, anal, ataunt, bungup and bilge-free, chipper, dinky,
neat, orderly, sleek, slick, smart, snug, spick and span,
spick-and-span, spotless, spruce, taut, tidy, tight, trig, trim,
uncluttered, well-cared-for, well-groomed