fix
Forms
- present (v1)
- fix
- past (v2)
- fixt
- past participle (v3)
- fixt
- present participle
- fixing
- 3rd person singular
- fixes
- Plural
- fixes
Definitions
1.To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
- The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet.
- A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it.
2.To mend, to repair.
- Some pizza rolls would fix me right now.
- Getting tongued by a hot woman would fix me.
- That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
3.To prepare (food or drink).(informal)
- She fixed dinner for the kids.
- She fixed Peter a slice of black bread and jam by cutting the hard crust petalwise around the edge, so the child could tear off convenient pieces.
- I fixed us drinks, orange juice with some vodka I'd gotten on sale, and washed a few dishes to get my mind off Jess and the fact of his not texting back.
4.To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
- A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.
1.A repair or corrective action.
- That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.
2.A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- "How come you're in this fix?"
- It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!
3.A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.(slang)
- And Cash told me of cases where two hips take a fix together and then one pulls out his badge.
- Maybe I will find in yage what I was looking for in junk and weed and coke. Yage may be the final fix.
4.A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- As the professional thief notes: You can tell by the way the case is handled in court when the fix is in.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1482
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fix (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin fīxus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from fīgō (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to jab; stick; set”).