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Opulent first-class cabins, a gym, swimming pool, smoking rooms, fine restaurants and Victorian-style Turkish bath gave RMS Titanic - the pinnacle of comfort and luxury of her time, a shipshape appearance, until it hit the iceberg ... "
Captain Edward Smith

Liliputinss. What, the heck, is this?
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Meaning of shipshape in English
adjective   informal
neat and with everything in its correct place

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shipshape
adjective
ship·;shape ;ship-;sh;p  ;ship-;sh;p
Synonyms of shipshape
: trim, tidy

Synonyms
antiseptic
bandbox
crisp
groomed
kempt
neat
orderly
picked up
prim
smug
snug
tidied
tidy
trig
trim
uncluttered
well-groomed
Examples of shipshape in a Sentence
I like to keep my car shipshape.
Everything had to be shipshape before we could sell the house.
Recent Examples on the Web
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Freshly painted wood exteriors, a red door and white trim give the cottage a shipshape appearance.
—Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2019
Indeed, Helena Bay’s atmosphere is more shipshape than Kiwi-convivial.
—Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2019

Word History
Etymology
short for earlier shipshapen, from ship + shapen, archaic past participle of shape

First Known Use
1769, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of shipshape was in 1769
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Dictionary Entries Near shipshape
Ship Rock

shipshape

shipside

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RMS Titanic
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, approximately 1,500 died (figures vary), making the incident one of the deadliest peacetime sinkings of a single ship.[4] Titanic, operated by the White Star Line, carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from the British Isles, Scandinavia, and elsewhere in Europe who were seeking a new life in the United States and Canada. The disaster drew public attention, spurred major changes in maritime safety regulations, and inspired a lasting legacy in popular culture.

RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat upon entering service and the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners built for the White Star Line. The ship was built by the Harland and Wolff shipbuilding company in Belfast. Thomas Andrews Jr., the chief naval architect of the shipyard, died in the disaster. Titanic was under the command of Captain Edward John Smith, who went down with the ship.

The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury. It included a gymnasium, swimming pool, smoking rooms, fine restaurants and cafes, a Victorian-style Turkish bath, and hundreds of opulent cabins. A high-powered radiotelegraph transmitter was available to send passenger "marconigrams" and for the ship's operational use. Titanic had advanced safety features, such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, which contributed to the ship's reputation as "unsinkable".

Titanic was equipped with 16 lifeboat davits, each capable of lowering three lifeboats, for a total capacity of 48 boats. Despite this capacity, the ship was scantly equipped with a total of only 20 lifeboats. Fourteen of these were regular lifeboats, two were cutter lifeboats, and four were collapsible and proved difficult to launch while the ship was sinking. Together, the 20 lifeboats could hold 1,178 people — roughly half the number of passengers on board, and a third of the number the passengers the ship could have carried at full capacity (a number consistent with the maritime safety regulations of the era). The British Board of Trade's regulations required 14 lifeboats for a ship 10,000 tonnes. Titanic carried six more than required, allowing 338 extra people room in lifeboats. When the ship sank, the lifeboats that had been lowered were only filled up to an average of 60%.