🔧 A small repair 💑 A setup date 🕵️ Dishonest scheme

fix-up

8.8

A dishonest plan to make a result unfair in a game or election

noun
/ˈfɪksˌʌp/

Slang

: amaño

Authorities are looking into claims that the election was a fix-up orchestrated by corrupt officials.

Examples

Everyone knew it was a fix-up from the start.
The tournament was just a fix-up to benefit the organizers.
The investigation revealed that the boxing match was a complete fix-up from the start.
Many fans were disappointed when rumors of a fix-up surfaced after the controversial game.
The referee's decision to ignore the foul was clearly a fix-up that benefited the home team.
Many fans believe that the championship game was a fix-up to increase ticket sales.
After reviewing the evidence, it became obvious that the match was a fix-up orchestrated by the promoters.

Synonyms

dirty tricks

vsfix-up

12 6.0

Secret dishonest actions that harm or make someone look bad, often in politics and business

focuses on arranging outcomes unfairly rather than harming opponents

chicanery

vsfix-up

Formal

8 9.3

Tricks people use to deceive others to get money or advantage

focuses on arranging results unfairly rather than general deceptive gains

Antonyms

honesty

365 1.0

Being truthful and fair in what you say and do

fair play

16 3.0

Honest behavior that treats everyone the same and follows the rules in sport or competition

How Rigged

fraudulent

90 6.5

fix-up

Slang

8.8

shady dealing

Informal

4 5.6

legitimate

602 4.2

Surface Forms

fix-up singular

fix-ups plural

Morphology

fix-up = fix up (opaque) = fix + up

The noun is historically related to the phrasal verb 'fix up', but the sense of a dishonest scheme is a specialized extension that is not directly predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Fix-up comes from the simple verb fix ('to arrange' or 'make certain') plus up ('completely' or 'finished'). So a fix-up in a game or contest is when someone has secretly 'fixed' the result in advance, making the outcome dishonest.