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fixer
noun- a person who can solve problems informally US
- When you want a lawyer, you don’t want a trial lawyer, you want a fixer. You don’t care how good he is in a courtroom, you want to fix it; you don’t want to go to trial. — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 130, 1972
- a person who takes care of legal problems encountered by a circus or carnival US, 1900
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 34, 1980
- an agent working for the police UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 52, 1996
- an embassy or other building that is provided police protection US
- Fixers are embassies and such that they assign a cop to stand in front of. You stand there for eight hours like a doorman. — Mark Baker, Cops, p. 65, 1985
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