Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to ships; frequented by ships.

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Examples

  • Newly trophied Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Tina Fey has repeatedly said "no way José" to the idea of a Jack-Liz hookup-and all that schmoopy "shippy" B.S. is totally beneath an outstanding comedic television program like

    E! Online (US) - Top Stories 2009

  • After interminable hours of shippy asynchronous dirty dancing, dinner is called, and we blunder down to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

    Richard Bangs: Mind Sex with Strangers Richard Bangs 2011

  • Ideally if i needed such things on a long term basis i would pick them up a bundle at a time at specific intervals. but that's just me. worth trying • Micrsquish has finally accepted the fact that they shippy buggy products and will forever ship buggy products.

    slow moving yet good ideas 2009

  • Ideally if i needed such things on a long term basis i would pick them up a bundle at a time at specific intervals. but that's just me. worth trying • Micrsquish has finally accepted the fact that they shippy buggy products and will forever ship buggy products.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • After interminable hours of shippy asynchronous dirty dancing, dinner is called, and we blunder down to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

    Richard Bangs: Mind Sex with Strangers Richard Bangs 2011

  • By the end of the novel, I was left feeling gushy Kaisa/Ash shippy but also wanting more out of the story as well.

    Review: Ash by Malinda Lo Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

  • I was desperately in need of some shippy goodness today so I was trawling around on youtube and found this bit of Rose/Nine loveliness and thought I'd share.

    Shippy Moment amberfocus 2008

  • By the end of the novel, I was left feeling gushy Kaisa/Ash shippy but also wanting more out of the story as well.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

  • Setting: Cavernous, elegant, still a little cruise-shippy

    Ed Levine: The Four-Star Italian We've Been Waiting For 2009

  • I know some of you were surprised to find certain Martha/Doctor or Anti-Rose sentiments being aired but the rules clearly state that T&C is not a shippy community but is, instead, one where Rose and Doctor lovers can commune about "all facets of the relationship."

    Public Serive Announcement - Re: Time & Chips rabid1st 2007

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  • See citation at cheppy.

    December 16, 2008

  • Anyone caught saying this word near water (and being serious), should be drowned. Dumb word.

    November 1, 2021

  • if you look at the Tweets content, it looks like it's used in a fanfic-adjacent sense of shipping

    November 1, 2021