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N: Short for romantic relationship, popularized in fanfiction circles. V: To endorse a romantic relationship.

N: I see a 'ship developing between Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. V: I ship Ron/Hermione

v. the act of shoving two fictional characters' heads together and yelling, "NOW KISS!"

"I ship Rose and ten so hard! They're so cute together... if only they were a canon couple..."

A boat. That's all it should be. It's just a boat. People need to calm down with all this other crap; a ship is a BOAT. A big piece of metal that floats miraculously on the surface of the water, and usually holds people and/or cargo.

There is a ship in that movie. It was very large and it caught fire and people on it died.

In computer software - it means to publish / distribute the application in its current state. Often used humurously when the software is buggy and clearly not ready to publish.

Tester - "The game crashes whenever you attack an enemy" Programmer - "Ship It!"

When you approve of something , a friends relationship with someone , a decision

Jon and Casey are dating now I ship it .

This is most ofter used on tumblr by fandoms. Fandoms will ship everything and anything. Shipping comes from the word relationSHIP. Basically it is when you want a fictional character, real-life person, or cartoon people to be together. People often write fanfictions about their favorite ship, called their OTP.

Person 1: Wow I totally ship michellie!! Person 2: OH MY GOD NO I SHIP DELLIE!! Person 3: wait how can you ship a person isn't that illegal to send them with UPS or something? Person 2: No i want them as a couple. It's called Shipping.

When you ship something it means you encourage two people being in a romantic relationship, whether in virtual reality.

"I soooooo ship ____ did you seeeeee how many flowers he gave her?" "What do you mean whats shipping don't you read? To ship is ^"