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shape-up

[sheyp-uhp]
–noun
1. an act or instance of shaping up.
2. a former method of hiring longshoremen in which the applicants appeared daily at the docks and a union hiring boss chose those who would be given work.
Also, shapeup.


Origin:
1940–45; n. use of v. phrase shape up
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shape·up or shape-up   (shāp'ŭp')   
n.  An assembled group of dock workers from which the day's work crew is chosen by a representative of the union.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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