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What does shape up or ship out mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word shape up or ship out? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (idiomatic) 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.
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Henry is taking the long-term view and it may actually be a warning to the four wingers in the party that they may have to shape up or ship out.
Athens needs to shape up or ship out, and every day that goes by with no resolution makes a default all the more possible.
He can tell someone who is incompetent running a major department to shape up or ship out in ways Ms. Preckwinkle cannot.
He said yesterday that if teachers do not pay more attention to their chosen career they should shape up or ship out.
A terse order has asked the overweight policemen to either shape up or ship out of the job.
Like teenagers, we can stomp our foot and demand the run of the house, but unless we pay the bills we can be told to shape up or ship out.

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