fix-up

fix-up

See also: fix up and fixup

English

Etymology

From the verb phrase 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.

Related terms

• fixer-upper

Further reading

• fix-up on Wikipedia.Wikipedia