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shape-up (plural shape-ups)

1. Alternative form of shapeup (any sense)
   1. Gathering of workers to be picked for a job.
      • 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:

        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.

      • 1957, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Verbal Behavior:

        At each shape-up there is a new employment.

      • 2023, Charles P. Larrowe, Shape-Up and Hiring Hall, page 73:

        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.

   2. Activity to get someone or something back into shape.
      • 1990, The New Complete Medical and Health Encyclopedia, page 1147:

        Shower shape-ups have two advantages.

      • 2017, Liz Earle, Liz Earle's 6-Week Shape Up Plan:

        All the recipes for this 6-week shape-up are tasty and nutritious.

   3. Hairstyle
      • 2005, Spiro Milas, December 23, page 11:

        I noticed my shape-ups weren't as nice as some of my friends from the city.

      • 2019, David Lyons, The Boy Becomes a Man: Confessions of an Honest Politician:

        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.