fix up
verb- To provide (someone) with something; to furnish. · I need someone to fix me up with a tent and some camping gear.
- To set up a date or to introduce people, especially with the intention of a possible romantic or sexual coupling. · Can you fix me up with a date for Saturday night?
- To repair or refurbish. · I've been fixing up the boat for the holidays.
- To prepare or provide (something). · His mother will fix up a snack for the sleepover tonight.
- To get one's act together; to sort oneself out.
- To settle up with; reimburse.
- To get an abortion; to procure an abortion for someone.
- To do a dose of a drug, especially heroin; to provide a drug (often alcoholic drink) to someone addicted to it.
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“He was able to fix up his own little hiding-place without any confederate—save, of course, that precious housekeeper of his, whom I should lose no time in adding to your bag, Lestrade.”
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