to be or cause to be unloaded, discharged, or disembarked from a ship
2. (transitive) nautical
to remove from a regular place
to unship oars
unshipped in American English
(unˈʃɪpt)
adjective
1.
not shipped, as goods
2. (of a person)
having no ship
3.
out of position or formation, as a boat or ship
Word origin
[1710–20; un-1 + shipped]This word is first recorded in the period 1710–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bother, propaganda, rewind, tint, whackun- is a prefix meaning “not,” freely used as an English formative, giving negative oropposite force in adjectives and their derivative adverbs and nouns (unfair; unfairly; unfairness; unfelt; unseen; unfitting; unformed; unheard-of; un-get-at-able), and less freely used in certain other nouns (unrest; unemployment)
Examples of 'unshipped' in a sentence
unshipped
He unshipped the launcher from his back and put a SAM-7 into the tube.
Shah, Idries KARA KUSH
His error at the fourth-last was more significant than the one when he unshipped the champ.