mix it up

[miks] Origin

mix

[miks] verb, mixed or mixt, mix·ing, noun
verb (used with object)
1.
to combine (substances, elements, things, etc.) into one mass, collection, or assemblage, generally with a thorough blending of the constituents.
2.
to put together indiscriminately or confusedly (often followed by up).
3.
to combine, unite, or join: to mix business and pleasure.
4.
to add as an element or ingredient: Mix some salt into the flour.
5.
to form or make by combining ingredients: to mix a cake; to mix mortar.
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6.
to crossbreed.
7.
Movies.
a.
to combine, blend, edit, etc. (the various components of a soundtrack): to mix dialogue and sound effects.
b.
to complete the mixing process on (a film, soundtrack, etc.): an important movie that took months to mix.
8.
to combine (two or more separate recordings or microphone signals) to make a single recording or composite signal.
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verb (used without object)
9.
to become mixed: a paint that mixes easily with water.
10.
to associate or mingle, as in company: to mix with the other guests at a party.
11.
to be crossbred, or of mixed breeding.
12.
Boxing. to exchange blows vigorously and aggressively: The crowd jeered as the fighters clinched, refusing to mix.

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Mix it up is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
noun
13.
an act or instance of mixing.
14.
the result of mixing; mixture: cement mix; an odd mix of gaiety and sadness.
15.
a commercially prepared blend of ingredients to which usually only a liquid must be added to make up the total of ingredients necessary or obtain the desired consistency: a cake mix; muffin mix.
16.
mixer (def. 4).
17.
the proportion of ingredients in a mixture; formula: a mix of two to one.
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18.
Informal. a mess or muddle; mix-up.
19.
Music. an electronic blending of tracks or sounds made to produce a recording.
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20.
mix down, to mix the tracks of an existing recording to make a new recording with fewer tracks: the four-track tape was mixed down to stereo.
21.
mix up,
a.
to confuse completely, especially to mistake one person or thing for another: The teacher was always mixing up the twins.
b.
to involve or entangle.
22.
mix it up, Slang.
a.
to engage in a quarrel.
b.
to fight with the fists.
Also, mix it.

Origin:
1470–80; back formation from mixt mixed

mix·a·ble, adjective
mix·a·bil·i·ty, mix·a·ble·ness, noun
o·ver·mix, verb
un·mix, verb (used with object)
un·mix·a·ble, adjective


1, 9. commingle, jumble, unite, amalgamate, fuse. Mix, blend, combine, mingle concern the bringing of two or more things into more or less intimate association. Mix is the general word for such association: to mix fruit juices. Blend implies such a harmonious joining of two or more types of colors, feelings, etc., that the new product formed displays some of the qualities of each: to blend fragrances or whiskeys. Combine implies such a close or intimate union that distinction between the parts is lost: to combine forces. Mingle usually suggests retained identity of the parts: to mingle voices. 9. coalesce. 14. concoction; formula.

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Word Origin & History

mix
1530s, back-formation from M.E. myxte (late 15c.), from Anglo-Fr. mixte, from L. mixtus, pp. of miscere "to mix," from PIE *meik- "to mix" (cf. Skt. misrah "mixed," Gk. misgein "to mix, mingle," O.C.S. meso, mesiti "to mix," Rus. meshat, Lith. maisau "to mix, mingle," Welsh mysgu). Also borrowed in O.E.
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as miscian. The noun is attested from 1580s. Mixed marriage is from 1698 (originally in a religious context; racial sense was in use by 1942 in U.S., though mixed breed in ref. to mulattoes is found by 1775). Mixed bag "heterogeneous collection" is from 1936. Mixed up "confused" is from 1862; mix-up "confusion" first recorded 1898.
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Slang Dictionary

mix it up (with (so)) definition


  1. tv.
    to fight with someone; to quarrel with someone. : Max came out of the shop and began to mix it up with Mooshoo.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

mix it up

Get in a fight, as in The driver got out and began to mix it up with the other driver. This expression uses mix in referring to physical mingling. [c. 1900]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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