phrase
Street Slang
fixing to
· phrase · southern-us
Southern American English for 'about to' — on the verge of doing something.
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Southern construction meaning 'about to' or 'getting ready to.' Used constantly across the South and lifted wholesale into Southern rap — Memphis, Houston, Atlanta. Often slurred to 'fixin' to' or 'finna,' which is now its own national slang word.
“I'm fixing to head to the studio, call you back in a minute.”
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fixing to In A Sentence
I'm fixing to head to the studio, call you back in a minute.
Origin & Usage
Traced to the 1700s, from 'fix' meaning to set in order or intend. Dialect Society records use as early as 1716. Bled into Black Southern English and from there into hip-hop, where 'finna' became the dominant clipped form.
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