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fix-up

fix-up noun: a repair; an act of mending.

Noun

fix-up (plural fix-ups)

  1. A repair; an act of mending.
  2. A novel created from (possibly unrelated, and possibly previously published) pieces of short fiction.
    • In The Martian Chronicles (1950), another fix-up novel, Ray Bradbury returns time and again to the trope of the abandoned city, as mass migrations from town to country and from one planet to another render cities obsolete.2016, Steffen Hantke, Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 214

Forms of fix-up

pluralfix-ups
alternative formfixup

Origin of fix-up

Deverbal from fix up.

Questions about fix-up

What does fix-up mean?
Fix-up means a repair; an act of mending.
What part of speech is fix-up?
Fix-up is a noun.
What is the plural of fix-up?
The plural of fix-up is fix-ups.

Words near fix-up in the dictionary

  1. fix upon
  2. fix-it
  3. fix-it-upper
  4. fix-it-uppers
  5. fix-its
  6. fix-up
  7. fix-ups
  8. fixability
  9. fixable
  10. fixage
  11. fixate

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