fix n.2
(orig. US Und.)1. (also fix-it, fix-up) any corrupt deal, a bribe, a favour.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 18 Sept. 2/5: The whole thing [i.e a grossly unbalanced boxing-match] looks remarkably like a fix-up. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Wash. Post (DC) 14 Aug. 4/2: The operator of ringer No. 1 didn’t know anything about the scheme. The charterer of ringer No. 2 knew only about he frame-up of the man who was going to run ringer No. 1. But the fellow with ringer No. 3 knew all about the fix-it of both the others. | |
| Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 6 Sept. 4/8: It wasn’t a schlenter or ‘fix-up’. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Everlasting Mercy 28: I’ll bloody him a bloody fix, / I’ll bloody burn his bloody ricks. | |
| Vocab. Criminal Sl. 33: fix [...] A condition of security where grafters may operate with impunity. | |
| Shearer’s Colt 164: You show us the mazuma and we’ll show you the fix. | |
| Lady in the Lake (1952) 120: Almore finished her off and then he and Condy between them bought a fix. | |
| Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 102: He knows all the dirt, where the big fixes are. | |
| Essential Lenny Bruce 171: The juice / The fix / The schmeer / The In. | |
| (con. 1960s) London Blues 229: The whole thing is a fix, but who’s fixing for whom? | |
| Indep. on Sun. 20 Feb. 1: It’s a fix. | |
| Split Decision [ebook] The idea of a fix didn’t sit well with me. Even if I came out on the winning side. |
2. the person who makes such deals.
| (con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 11: Professional thieves have no thought of receiving punishment while in the hands of the fix. | |
| ‘Cemetery Bait’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 515: The stout fellow being the local fix [...] looks after the local law. | |
| Asphalt Jungle in Four Novels (1984) 186: I know he’s the fix. I know he’s big. | |
| Little Men, Big World 188: The boys are already operating with a strong fix in the Paxton Square district—I think they got to Captain Megher. |
In phrases
to ensure a plan or event favours whoever has paid the bribe, arranged the deal etc.
 | Arizona Dly Star (Tuscon, AZ) 23 July 8/3: ‘I’m putting in the fix now down east’. | |
| Big Con 4: Forestalling action by the law. (Putting in the fix.). | |
| Man with the Golden Arm 7: The super puts in the fix for all right-thinking hustlers. | |
| ‘Sex Gang’ in Pulling a Train’ (2012) [ebook] It’s all I can do, putting in the fix to keep [...] those porn-campaign bastards off my tail. | |
| Venetian Blonde (2006) 146: He’d put in so many fixes himself he’d see one now like spots before his eyes. | |
| Digger’s Game (1981) 28: I had the fix in. | |
| (con. 1949) True Confessions (1979) 119: It ought to be a new experience for him [...] going into court. He generally puts the fix in outside. | |
| Q&A 86: He tried to put the fix on me. For ten large—. | |
| Brown’s Requiem 250: The fix was in. The L.A.P.D. had some inkling of what was up and had stonewalled it. | |
| (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 237: No, you recognize that the fix is in. | |
| Layer Cake 11: I told Mortimer that if he wanted a fee to put the fix in to tell me now. |