Fix-up
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fix-up is a noun meaning A repair; an act of mending.
Meaning
A repair; an act of mending.
More Meanings
- A novel created from (possibly unrelated, and possibly previously published) pieces of short fiction.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- fix-ups
- fixup
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include repairing, patch-up, repair, repairment, mending, mend.
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