"fix to" meaning in English

See fix to in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: fixes to [present, singular, third-person], fixing to [participle, present], fixed to [participle, past], fixed to [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} fix to (third-person singular simple present fixes to, present participle fixing to, simple past and past participle fixed to)
  1. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, Appalachia and Southern US, informal, dated) To intend or prepare to do something. Tags: Appalachia, Southern-US, dated, informal, intransitive

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fixes to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fixing to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fixed to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fixed to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "fix to (third-person singular simple present fixes to, present participle fixing to, simple past and past participle fixed to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "African-American Vernacular English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Appalachian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"to\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Southern US English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "text": "I’m fixing to whoop you if you don’t shut up.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "text": "It’s fixing to rain.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              128,
              137
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1925, The Southwestern Reporter, volume 266, page 434:",
          "text": "Three of us boys, myself, Iver Holt, and Webbie Touchstone crawled upon this board that went across the tank to dive off. I was fixing to, but [one of the other boys] got up there before I did, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To intend or prepare to do something."
      ],
      "id": "en-fix_to-en-verb-NIdmiDau",
      "links": [
        [
          "intend",
          "intend"
        ],
        [
          "prepare",
          "prepare"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, Appalachia and Southern US, informal, dated) To intend or prepare to do something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Appalachia",
        "Southern-US",
        "dated",
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fix to"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fixes to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fixing to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fixed to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fixed to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "fix to (third-person singular simple present fixes to, present participle fixing to, simple past and past participle fixed to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "African-American Vernacular English",
        "Appalachian English",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"to\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Southern US English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "text": "I’m fixing to whoop you if you don’t shut up.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "text": "It’s fixing to rain.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              128,
              137
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1925, The Southwestern Reporter, volume 266, page 434:",
          "text": "Three of us boys, myself, Iver Holt, and Webbie Touchstone crawled upon this board that went across the tank to dive off. I was fixing to, but [one of the other boys] got up there before I did, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To intend or prepare to do something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "intend",
          "intend"
        ],
        [
          "prepare",
          "prepare"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, Appalachia and Southern US, informal, dated) To intend or prepare to do something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Appalachia",
        "Southern-US",
        "dated",
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fix to"
}

Download raw JSONL data for fix to meaning in English (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (d146717 and 59dc20b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.