1. physical fitness exercises or calisthenics
Usage: informal
2. a system of hiring workers on a daily basis, especially dock workers who gather at a designated location
Usage: labor relations

Examples

• The coach led the team through morning shapeups before practice.
• Daily shapeups helped improve the soldiers’ physical condition.
• The dock workers gathered for shapeups at dawn.
• Union leaders criticized the unfair shapeups system.
• He did his shapeups in the backyard every morning.
• The shapeups determined who would work that day.