ship out

phrasal verb

shipped out; shipping out; ships out

: to leave one place and go to another for military duties

The troops will be shipping out next month.

Examples of ship out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At the time, analysts called it one of the biggest trades in NFL history, crediting a win-now approach for Green Bay while many criticized Jones for shipping out a franchise cornerstone. —Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025

Public records show the zoo has a history of separating baby giraffes from their mothers prematurely, having shipped out at least 14 calves in the decade before the state intervened. —Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025

Behind us lie six months of intense work to get this ship out of lay-up, to train and to get to sea. —Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025

Last week, the Patriots got a head start on the deadline by trading safety Kyle Dugger to Pittsburgh and defensive lineman Keion White to the 49ers in a pair of pick-swap deals that shipped out a seventh-round pick with each player and netted sixth-rounders in return. —Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 5 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for ship out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout