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  • noun a way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired

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Examples

  • This is especially true during your shape-up week.

    The Mommy Diet Alison J. Sweeney 2011

  • During my shape-up week I worked out every single day.

    The Mommy Diet Alison J. Sweeney 2011

  • If they were picked for any work during the morning shape-up, it was for the filthiest, toughest jobs.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • The Local 1317 hiring hall was a shanty next to the union headquarters where the men who wanted to work that day would gather in the morning in what is called a “shape-up,” a casual method of employment selection that had been abolished at some ports.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • The Local 1317 hiring hall was a shanty next to the union headquarters where the men who wanted to work that day would gather in the morning in what is called a “shape-up,” a casual method of employment selection that had been abolished at some ports.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • The Local 1317 hiring hall was a shanty next to the union headquarters where the men who wanted to work that day would gather in the morning in what is called a “shape-up,” a casual method of employment selection that had been abolished at some ports.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • The Local 1317 hiring hall was a shanty next to the union headquarters where the men who wanted to work that day would gather in the morning in what is called a “shape-up,” a casual method of employment selection that had been abolished at some ports.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • If they were picked for any work during the morning shape-up, it was for the filthiest, toughest jobs.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • If they were picked for any work during the morning shape-up, it was for the filthiest, toughest jobs.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • If they were picked for any work during the morning shape-up, it was for the filthiest, toughest jobs.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

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