fixer-upper
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- noun
- /ˈfɪkərˌʌpər/
- Informal
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casa para reformar
- After a few months of hard work, they turned the old fixer-upper into a beautiful home.
- buy a fixer-upper
- bedroom fixer-upper
- fixer-upper house
It was either cheap fixer uppers or high end.
- It was either cheap fixer uppers or high end.
- And we just were these two kind of helpless people just trying to make it work out in this dilapidated fixer upper house.
Examples
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This lovely fixer-upper has great potential once it's been renovated.
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My husband and I got a fixer-upper for our first home to save money.
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See we created value in the house by buying a fixer upper, buying something that needed some love.
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This what they call a real fixer upper, huh?
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Yeah, it's really just a weekend fixer-upper for us right now.
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Cozy and affordable, this lovely fixer-upper is the perfect place for a dynamic couple like you.
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If you're considering buying a fixer-upper, as mine is, be honest with yourself: do you like fixing things? Doing projects?
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We live in a rural community and bought a decently sized fixer-upper with a huge yard for fairly cheap.
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The two bought a fixer-upper home in Phoenix, AZ, for what seemed to be a steal—$1.8 million.
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In five years, they'd converted their large Spanish stucco house from the dark "needs a little TLC" fixer-upper that the broker had sold them into an elegant home.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
A house sold cheaply because it needs a lot of repair
A cheaper apartment with few repairs or updates
How Run-down
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fixer-upper comes from the idea of something you 'fix up'; it combines fix ('to repair') and up ('make better'), so a fixer-upper is a house sold cheaply because it needs repair and you can improve it.