fix to

English

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.
    I’m fixing to whoop you if you don’t shut up.
    It’s fixing to rain.
    • 1925, The Southwestern Reporter, volume 266, page 434:
      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, […]

Usage notes

This phrasal verb is now chiefly used in certain regional dialects in the progressive tense, fixing to.

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