Dictionary entry

Shipshape

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ship″shape′ (?), a. Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.

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.

Keep everything shipshape, for I must go Tennyson.