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FESS UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fess up mean?
• FESS UP (verb)
The verb FESS UP has 1 sense:
1. admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
Familiarity information: FESS UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
fess up; make a clean breast of; own up
Context example:
the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting
Hypernyms (to "fess up" is one way to...):
concede; confess; profess (admit (to a wrongdoing))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
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