"shipshape" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "― When are you going out fishing again? / ― Oh, in about six weeks, when we're shipshape aloft.",
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          "ref": "1989 August 17, Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger, premium tie-in edition, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published November 2018, page 141",
          "text": "[Y]ou got the downhaul to keep him in place real snug like. Otherwise it just ain't shipshape. Hell, everybody knows that.",
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