Usually means: Admit truth or confess guilt.
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  1. fess up: Merriam-Webster
  2. fess up: Vocabulary.com
  3. fess up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. 'fess up, fess up: Wiktionary
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  6. fess up: FreeDictionary.org
  7. fess up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. fess up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. fess up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. fess up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. fess up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fess up)

▸ verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To confess to something; to admit something.

Similar:
'fess up, confess, confesse, front up, come clean, own up, put one's hands up, put one's hand up, step forward, confide, more...

Opposite:
deny, conceal, cover up, lies, withhold

Adjectives:
tender, own, accept, acceptant, clear, exact, swear, go-ahead, deferent, ok, impetrate

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Similar:
'fess up, confess, confesse, front up, come clean, own up, put one's hands up, put one's hand up, step forward, confide, more...

Opposite:
deny, conceal, cover up, lies, withhold

Adjectives:
tender, own, accept, acceptant, clear, exact, swear, go-ahead, deferent, ok, impetrate



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