Fix-up
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A repair; an act of mending.
- 2 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
Deverbal from fix up.
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