shape up or ship out (English, verb)
expansion: shape up or ship out (third-person singular simple present shapes up or ships out, present participle shaping up or shipping out, simple past and past participle shaped up or shipped out)
Senses:
glosses: To either improve one's behavior or else be required to leave; to either improve one's performance in an activity or else withdraw from that activity completely.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: shapes up or ships out
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shaping up or shipping out
tags: participle
present
singular
third-person
form: shaped up or shipped out
tags: participle
past
present
singular
third-person
form: shaped up or shipped out
tags: past
present
singular
third-person