fix-up

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See also: fix up and fixup

English

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Etymology

Deverbal from 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.
    • 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:
      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.

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