adjective
- neat, orderly, and well-organized
Usage: originally nautical
adverb
- in a neat and orderly manner
Usage: originally nautical
Examples
- The captain kept his cabin shipshape at all times.
- After cleaning all morning, the house was finally shipshape.
- She arranged her desk shipshape before starting work.
- The garage was shipshape after organizing all the tools.
- Everything must be shipshape before the inspection.
- He kept his workshop shipshape and Bristol fashion.