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Shipshape vs Well-kept - What's the difference?

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Shipshape is a related term of well-kept.


As adjectives the difference between shipshape and well-kept

is that shipshape is meticulously neat and tidy while well-kept is neat, tidy.

shipshape

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • meticulously neat and tidy
  • * 1937 , , 01:44:00:
    • -- When are you going out fishing again? -- Oh, in about six weeks, when we're shipshape aloft.
  • Organized, serviceable, trained and ready for action

    • Related terms

    * shipshape and Bristol fashion

    well-kept

    English

    Alternative forms

    * well kept

    Adjective

  • neat, tidy.
  • (of a secret) not told to anyone.