"shape-up" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1914 July, W.M. Houghton, “The Longshoreman's Life is Short but Seldom Merry”, in Temperance: A Monthly Journal of the Church Temperance Society, volume 6, number 11, page 14:",
          "text": "But if he is absent at the shape-up – when the boss stevedore blows his whistle and the men line up in a semi-circle outside the pier to be picked – another man gets his place for the time being, and it may be that he will miss the ship entirely.",
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          "ref": "1957, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Verbal Behavior:",
          "text": "At each shape-up there is a new employment.",
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          "ref": "2023, Charles P. Larrowe, Shape-Up and Hiring Hall, page 73:",
          "text": "The attainment of status in the community is another important objective of workers, and it is obvious that the shape-up prevented longshoremen from achieving this goal.",
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        "Alternative form of shapeup (any sense)",
        "Gathering of workers to be picked for a job."
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        {
          "ref": "1990, The New Complete Medical and Health Encyclopedia, page 1147:",
          "text": "Shower shape-ups have two advantages.",
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        {
          "ref": "2017, Liz Earle, Liz Earle's 6-Week Shape Up Plan:",
          "text": "All the recipes for this 6-week shape-up are tasty and nutritious.",
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        "Activity to get someone or something back into shape."
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          "ref": "2005, Spiro Milas, December 23, page 11:",
          "text": "I noticed my shape-ups weren't as nice as some of my friends from the city.",
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        {
          "ref": "2019, David Lyons, The Boy Becomes a Man: Confessions of an Honest Politician:",
          "text": "Billy used to give us shape-ups to our hair. I went by his house one morning to get a shape-up, and he was shaking really bad.",
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        "Alternative form of shapeup (any sense)",
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          "ref": "1914 July, W.M. Houghton, “The Longshoreman's Life is Short but Seldom Merry”, in Temperance: A Monthly Journal of the Church Temperance Society, volume 6, number 11, page 14:",
          "text": "But if he is absent at the shape-up – when the boss stevedore blows his whistle and the men line up in a semi-circle outside the pier to be picked – another man gets his place for the time being, and it may be that he will miss the ship entirely.",
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        {
          "ref": "1957, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Verbal Behavior:",
          "text": "At each shape-up there is a new employment.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2023, Charles P. Larrowe, Shape-Up and Hiring Hall, page 73:",
          "text": "The attainment of status in the community is another important objective of workers, and it is obvious that the shape-up prevented longshoremen from achieving this goal.",
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          "ref": "1990, The New Complete Medical and Health Encyclopedia, page 1147:",
          "text": "Shower shape-ups have two advantages.",
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          "ref": "2017, Liz Earle, Liz Earle's 6-Week Shape Up Plan:",
          "text": "All the recipes for this 6-week shape-up are tasty and nutritious.",
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          "ref": "2005, Spiro Milas, December 23, page 11:",
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        },
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          "ref": "2019, David Lyons, The Boy Becomes a Man: Confessions of an Honest Politician:",
          "text": "Billy used to give us shape-ups to our hair. I went by his house one morning to get a shape-up, and he was shaking really bad.",
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        "Hairstyle"
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