fixing

fixing
/fik"sing/, n.
1. the act of a person or thing that fixes.
2. fixings. Also, fixin's /fik"sinz/. Informal.
a. the necessary ingredients: salad fixings.
b. the appropriate accompaniments; trimmings: turkey with all the fixings.
3. See gold fixing.
[1425-75; late ME; see FIX, -ING1]

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