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fix up (third-person singular simple present fixes up, present participle fixing up, simple past and past participle fixed up)

1. (informal, ambitransitive) To provide (someone) with something; to furnish.

   I need someone to fix me up with a tent and some camping gear.

   • 1913, Harris Dickson, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 186‎^[1]:

     Ef you don't fix me up a rake-off I got to scrap roun' fer myself.

2. (transitive, usually with with) To set up a date or to introduce people, especially with the intention of a possible romantic or sexual coupling.

   Can you fix me up with a date for Saturday night?

   • 1975, Shelley Steinmann List, Nobody Makes Me Cry‎^[2]:

     Please don't fix me up with any of your tycoons

   • 1988 April 9, Liz Gaist, “Lesbian Trash At Its Finest”, in Gay Community News, page 7:

     Syl finally fixes Chris up with Candy, a school teacher. Of course, they hit it off instantly. They return home from a date, and before they can lock Candy's front door behind them, the two women are doing it on the rug.

   • 2006, Leisure Entertainment Service Company, Nine romantic stories to remember‎^[3]:

     "You and I are going dancing," he said. "I'm going to buy you a drink, and then I'm going to fix you up with someone. You've been alone too long. It's time for you to get back in circulation." "Don't fix me up," I said. "I'll go, but don't fix me up.

3. (transitive) To repair or refurbish.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:repair

   I've been fixing up the boat for the holidays.

   • 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[4]:

     Creech is flexible enough to hide inside of the old truck that Tripp is fixing up, and Tripp discovers that, with the right tweaking, the oil-guzzling Creech can actually power that truck from the inside.

4. (informal, transitive) To prepare or provide (something).

   His mother will fix up a snack for the sleepover tonight.

   • 1936 December 23, Hazel Livingston, “‘Love’s Litany’”, in Walter V. Hogan, editor, The Daily Reporter, volume XX, number 53, White Plains, N.Y.: White Plains Publishing Company, →OCLC, chapter IX, page 18, column 4:

     Well, then, fix it up nice, waiter, and make mine baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and stewed corn and waiter!—plain white bread, no fancy rolls!

5. (slang, MLE) To get one's act together; to sort oneself out.
   • 2003 July 21, “Fix Up, Look Sharp” (track 6), in Boy In Da Corner, performed by Dizzy Rascal:

     Fix up, look sharp. Don't make me get the blicks out, get dark.

6. (slang, dated) To settle up with; reimburse.
   • 1906, Myra Kelly, "A Soul Above Buttons"‎^[5]:

     "If you don't fix me up I'll report you and have your whole shop raided.”

   • 2016, Steve Austin, Working Dog Heroes‎^[6]:

     I didn't extend credit to other kids, but after he'd become a regular customer he asked me to take some bets for which he'd fix me up later.

7. (slang, transitive) To get an abortion; to procure an abortion for someone.
8. (slang, intransitive) To do a dose of a drug, especially heroin; to provide a drug (often alcoholic drink) to someone addicted to it.