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fix-up en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from fix up.

Meanings

  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

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fix-ups Number=Plur lexicographic
fixup alternative lexicographic

Relateds

fixer-upper