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fixer|ˈfɪksə(r)|
[f. fix v. + -er1.]
1. One who fixes. Now, esp. one who arranges or adjusts matters (often illicitly).
1885Instr. to Census Clerks 69 [Workmen employed in the] Dye-House: Fixer, Dunger, Washer. Ibid. 95 [Workmen in the Zinc Trade] Fixer. 1889Amer. Mission. Dec. 363 Where the ‘boss’ and the fixer of elections are unknown. 1892Daily Chron. 28 Apr. 8/1 Blind Fixers wanted. 1900‘Flynt’ & Walton Powers that Prey iii. i. 64 Do you know what fixers are travelin’? 1909W. Irwin Confess. Con Man ii. 52 At the head of the outfit stood the ‘fixer’, whose job it was to bribe or stall city officials so that the gamblers could proceed with reasonable security. 1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 33 Fixer,..one who acts as go-between for thieves and bribe takers. Example: ‘If you get a rumble, send for Jones, the mouthpiece; he's a sure-shot fixer and can square anything short of murder.’ 1926J. Black You can't Win xii. 155 Lawyers haggling at the desk about releases for prisoners, ‘fixers’, hawk-eyed and rapacious, lurked about. 1930Observer 14 Sept. 15 The Americans have a word for the professional collaborator: they call him a ‘fixer’; and his business is to remove the technical defects from a play. 1931Economist 15 Aug. 302/2 A corps of lawyers and lobbyists who enjoyed a high reputation at Ottawa and Quebec as political ‘fixers’. 1952Country Life 12 Dec. 1959/2 The most successful dog..has the commanding eye, enabling him to hypnotise the sheep, which earns him the name of fixer. 1959Listener 25 Mar. 561/1 The second [group in Parliament] are the onlookers, the fixers, and the rank and file. 1971Guardian 21 Jan. 3/3 Victor Louis who was the principal contact man and fixer.
2. Something used for fixing (a volatile substance, a drawing, a colour or dye.) Also in Photogr.
1849Johnston Exper. Agric. 129 Experiments with gypsum as a fixer of ammonia. 1882Hamerton Graphic Arts 123 The fixer [for charcoal drawing]..is simply a very weak solution of gum-lac in spirits of wine. 1885Westmld. Gaz. 13 June 8/6 The albumen..is used as the fixer of bright aniline dyes in calicoes. 1922C. Beaton Diary 28 Dec. (1961) 29, I..went to Kodak's and bought a portrait attachment, some gas⁓light paper, developers and fixers. 1935Kingsbury & Johannsen Histol. Technique 1 A fixer may be defined as a fluid (or gas) in which the living, or at least very fresh, tissue is placed in order to preserve the structure of its elements as nearly as possible as in life. 1941J. D. Corrington Working with Microscope 161 Zenker's fluid, one of the most efficient and widely used of all fixers in animal histology. 1968Gloss. Terms Offset Lithogr. Printing (B.S.I.) 15 Fixer, a solution which changes undeveloped light-sensitive material into a water-soluble form for subsequent removal from the photographic layer by washing. |