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fix up en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, informal) To provide (someone) with something; to furnish.
   • I need someone to fix me up with a tent and some camping gear.
   • Ef you don't fix me up a rake-off I got to scrap roun' fer myself. 1913, Harris Dickson, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 186:
2. (transitive, usually, with with) To set up a date or to introduce people, especially with the intention of a possible romantic or sexual coupling.
   • Syl finally fixes Chris up with Candy, a school teacher. Of course, they hit it off instantly. They return home from a date, and before they can lock Candy's front door behind them, the two women are doing it on the rug. 1988 April 9, Liz Gaist, “Lesbian Trash At Its Finest”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
   • Please don't fix me up with any of your tycoons 1975, Shelley Steinmann List, Nobody Makes Me Cry:
   • "You and I are going dancing," he said. "I'm going to buy you a drink, and then I'm going to fix you up with someone. You've been alone too long. It's time for you to get back in circulation." "Don't fix me up," I said. "I'll go, but don't fix me up. 2006, Leisure Entertainment Service Company, Nine romantic stories to remember:
   • Can you fix me up with a date for Saturday night?
3. (transitive) To repair or refurbish.
   • Creech is flexible enough to hide inside of the old truck that Tripp is fixing up, and Tripp discovers that, with the right tweaking, the oil-guzzling Creech can actually power that truck from the inside. 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club:
   • I've been fixing up the boat for the holidays.
4. (informal, transitive) To prepare or provide (something).
   • His mother will fix up a snack for the sleepover tonight.
   • Well, then, fix it up nice, waiter, and make mine baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and stewed corn and waiter!—plain white bread, no fancy rolls! 1936 December 23, Hazel Livingston, “‘Love’s Litany’”, in Walter V. Hogan, editor, The Daily Reporter, volume XX, number 53, White Plains, N.Y.: White Plains Publishing Company, →OCLC, chapter IX, page 18, column 4:
5. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) To get one's act together; to sort oneself out.
   • Fix up, look sharp. Don't make me get the blicks out, get dark. 2003 July 21, “Fix Up, Look Sharp” (track 6), in Boy In Da Corner, performed by Dizzy Rascal:
6. (dated, slang) To settle up with; reimburse.
   • "If you don't fix me up I'll report you and have your whole shop raided.” 1906, Myra Kelly, "A Soul Above Buttons":
   • I didn't extend credit to other kids, but after he'd become a regular customer he asked me to take some bets for which he'd fix me up later. 2016, Steve Austin, Working Dog Heroes:
7. (slang, transitive) To get an abortion; to procure an abortion for someone.
8. (intransitive, slang) To do a dose of a drug, especially heroin; to provide a drug (often alcoholic drink) to someone addicted to it.

Forms

Deriveds

fixup · fix-it-upper · fix-up · fixer-upper

Synonyms

mend · correct · rectify · remedy · reform · restrive · renew · fix up · make whole · restore · revamp · right · patch · amend · recondition · put to rights · renovate · refurbish · retrieve · furbish · remediate · fix

Translations (23)

sv fixa till (to repair or refurbish) · de arrangieren (to prepare or provide something) · de ausstatten (to provide someone with something) · ga cuir caoi ar (to provide someone with something) · de aufbauen (to repair or refurbish) · de vorbereiten (to prepare or provide something) · fi hoitaa (to provide someone with something) · de renovieren (to repair or refurbish) · de versorgen (to prepare or provide something) · de versorgen (to provide someone with something) · de reparieren (to repair or refurbish) · de in Ordnung bringen (to repair or refurbish) · de fertig machen (to prepare or provide something) · fi järjestää (to provide someone with something) · de herrichten (to repair or refurbish) · fi junailla (to provide someone with something) · fi duunata (to repair or refurbish) · de aufbessern (to repair or refurbish) · fi kunnostaa (to repair or refurbish) · fi järjestää (to prepare or provide something) · fr réparer (to repair or refurbish) · de überarbeiten (to repair or refurbish) · de ausbessern (to repair or refurbish)