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ship over

ship over verb: to reenlist.

Verb

ship over (third-person singular simple present ships over, present participle shipping over, simple past and past participle shipped over)

  1. (intransitive) To reenlist.
    • His friend had just shipped over in the Navy and was sporting a new hashmark, and talked Smokey into going to the recruiting office.2002, Enlisted Naval Aviation Pilots, page 56

Forms of ship over

third-person singular presentships over
present participleshipping over
past participleshipped over
pastshipped over

Questions about ship over

What does ship over mean?
Ship over means to reenlist.
What part of speech is ship over?
Ship over is a verb.
What is the past tense of ship over?
The past tense of ship over is shipped over.

Words near ship over in the dictionary

  1. ship of the line lieutenant
  2. ship of the line of battle
  3. Ship of Theseus
  4. ship of war
  5. ship out
  6. ship over
  7. ship prefix
  8. ship prefixes
  9. ship railway
  10. ship railways
  11. ship rat

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