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fixup

fixup is the alternative form of fix-up.

Meaning of fix-up

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 fixup

pluralfixups

Origin of fixup

Deverbal from fix up.

Questions about fixup

What is fixup the alternative form of?
Fixup is the alternative form of fix-up.

Words near fixup in the dictionary

  1. fixtured
  2. fixtureless
  3. fixtures
  4. fixturing
  5. fixturings
  6. fixup
  7. fixups
  8. fixure
  9. fixures
  10. fiya
  11. Fiyoaree

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