shapeup

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. a gathering of labourers, where employers hire them for day jobs. slang
    — Even with all that prosperity there were bindle stiffs who didn't do so good: so he and the others dropped into a saloon, got a hundred bucks worth of small change, stepped back into the cab, drove over by the shapeup, that's what they said it was, a shapeup, and they threw money to the guys, laughed when they scrambled for the small change, niggers and wops, some poor yids, and some Americans too: they scrambled on the pier, scraping up a hundred bucks worth of nickels, dimes and pennies.
  2. A regular meeting by a criminal organization in which jobs are assigned. broadly
    — Worse, he required his men to attend weekly shapeups at his social club on a busy street in lower Manhattan.
  3. A session or routine in which someone or something is repaired or put into better shape.
    — Before we began our weekend shapeup, the car looked like this: scratches and dents, broken trim, and a finish that was strictly dullsville.
  4. A hairstyle that involves cutting along the natural hairline to straighten it.
    — Even those who still came to the shop came only for shapeups.
  5. An overview or outline of the major layout and shape of something.
    — Shapeup (SU) does a high-level outline, or shapeup, of a newspaper edition, including how many sections are in the edition, what the sections contain, and so on.

词形变化

shapeups plural shape-up alternative
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