Patch-up Definition

adjective
Something done by patching; a quick fix.
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noun

The act of patching or repairing.

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An instance of patching or repairing.
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A hastily performed repair job; a quick fix.
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verb

To mend something by patching; usually a quick fix.

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(idiomatic) To repair by adding a patch.

I needed to patch up my trousers after ripping them on the brambles.
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(idiomatic) To mend quickly.

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(idiomatic, figuratively) To repair, to make better.

You need to patch things up with your sister after that horrible argument.
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Origin of Patch-up

Patch-up Sentence Examples

  • Or was it possible to patch up a compromise between them ?

  • Once it is moved, all you need to do is patch up a few screw holes and paint over them.

  • Most of the division indeed had to be used to patch up the weaker parts of the line, but Cathcart himself with about 400 men worked his way along the lower and steeper part of the eastern slope so as to take the assailants of the battery in flank.

  • The business of a sound theology was to discover and apply those laws, not to patch up fleeting compromises with the intellectual fashions of an age.

  • Fortunately the pope interfered for a moment to lighten the friction; being threatened with a new invasion by the emperor Frederick, he suspended the sentences and sent legates to patch up a peace.

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Words Starting With P and Ending With P

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