• (RP) IPA: /ˈʃɪpʃeɪp/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp/

shipshape

1. (originally, nautical) Meticulously neat and tidy#Adjective|tidy.

   Synonyms: shipshape and Bristol fashion, tight, Thesaurus:orderly

   Antonyms: Thesaurus:disorderly

   • 1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter V, in The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale. [...] In Two Volumes, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Published by Charles Wiley; J. Seymour, printer, OCLC 1076549695 ↗, page 83 ↗:

     [I]t would have been more ship-shape to lower the bight of a rope, or a running bow-line, below me, than to seize an old sea-man by his head-lanyard; [...]

   • 1827, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Chronicles of the Canongate; [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed [by Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, OCLC 230674472 ↗, page 111 ↗:

     When we set out on the jolly voyage of life, what a brave fleet there is around us, as stretching our fresh canvas to the breeze, all "shipshape and Bristol fashion," pennons flying, music playing, cheering each other as we pass, we are rather amused than alarmed when some awkward comrade goes right ashore for want of pilotage!

   • 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], OCLC 879237670 ↗, page 13 ↗:

     Annie, my girl, cheer up, be comforted, / Look to the babes, and till I come again, / Keep everything shipshape, for I must go.

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Powder and Arms”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, OCLC 702939134 ↗, part II (The Sea Cook), page 70 ↗:

     Well, Captain Smollett, what have you to say? All well, I hope; all shipshape and seaworthy?

• German: picobello
• Portuguese: ordenado
• Spanish: bien orientado, ordenado

• shipshape and Bristol fashion

shipshape

1. (originally, nautical) Neatly and tidily to a meticulous extent.

   Synonyms: handsomely

   • 1840, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter XV, in The Pathfinder: Or, The Inland Sea. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, OCLC 1154843271 ↗, page 233 ↗:

     No—sir—if I sink, I sink; but d——e, I'll go down ship-shape and with dignity.

   • 1897, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, OCLC 213747138 ↗, page 48 ↗:

     Some of you have n't sense enough to put a blanket ship-shape over a sick man. There! Leave it alone! I can die anyhow!