0 a house that is not in good condition, that someone buys with the intention of working on it, improving it, and increasing its value:
1 a house or apartment for sale that is in bad condition and needs work:
Weekends are spent in their transformed fixer-upper at the lake with three baying beagles.
She also saved up enough money to buy her own house: a fixer-upper with spare rooms she may rent out.
If you decide to do a tub fixer-upper, how long will the tub be out of commission?
At the top in 2007, stocks were levitating to record highs, and fixer-upper homes were selling at mansion prices.
Sure, this 2,000 square-foot, no-windows, no-view property is a bit of a fixer-upper.
Unbeknownst to them, however, a pair of local boys -- bearded, boneheaded, ballcapped -- are headed to the same corner of the wilderness to work on their recently purchased fixer-upper cabin.
It was a definite fixer-upper.
So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.
