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fix noun- an injection of a drug, especially heroin US, 1936
- How about a fix? How about a fix, man? — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 7, 1952
- “Angel will give me a fix,” he told himself. “He’ll have the stuff.” — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 3, 1952
- Life telescopes down to junk, one fix and looking forward to the next[.] — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 35, 1953
- Do we take a fix here? — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 48, 1953
- I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, / dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix[.] — Allen Ginsberg, Howl, 1956
- Suddenly he grew tired and quiet and went in the house and disappeared in the bathroom for his pre-lunch fix. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 151–152, 1957
- He would have to have a fix soon. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 12, 1960
- Half an hour ago I gave myself a fix. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, 1960
- You’re going to see someone who’s promised to give you a fix. — Douglas Rutherford, The Creeping Flesh, p. 181, 1963
- I need a fix ’cause I’m going down. — John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Happiness is a Warm Gun, 1969
- They turned out to be fairly decent–even arranging to get me a fix later when I began getting really sick. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 93, 1980
- by extension, what a person craves or needs US
- I guess in a way Angel Juan is my fix and I’ve been jonesing for him. — Francesca Lia Block, Missing Angel Juan, p. 332, 1993
- an illegal arrangement US
- You might buy one guy and you might put the fix in for two, but not four. — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 263, 1948
- I told her where to meet me, a hotel on West forty-seventh where the fix was in strong. — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 52, 1953
- a well-thought-out plan with criminal intent AUSTRALIA
- — (Sydney) Bulletin, 26 April 1975
- trouble, a difficult position US, 1834
- In a fix over funding? — The Guardian, 4 November 2003
- in the slang of pool players, proper position for the next shot or shots US
- — Roger D. Abrahams, Deep Down in the Jungle, p. 261, 1970
▶ get a fix on to make a plan of action US- These people also are habitually “getting a fix” on things, a phrase presumably borrowed from navigation. If one of these boys is in a muddle as to how he and the girl friend are going to spend the evening, he says, “Let’s get a fix on this evening.” — Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 11 October 1955
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