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fix-up

noun

Etymology

Deverbal from fix up.

Definitions

  1. A repair

    A repair; an act of mending.

  2. A novel created from (possibly unrelated, and possibly previously published) pieces of…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fix-up. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA