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Princeton's WordNet

  1. make a clean breast of, own up, fess upverb

    admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

    "the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting"

Wiktionary

  1. fess upverb

    (frequently used in the imperative) To confess to something; to admit something.

  2. Etymology: Aphetic form of confess + up.

ChatGPT

  1. fess up

    "Fess up" is an informal phrase used to urge someone to admit, confess, or take responsibility for something they have done or hidden. It generally refers to acknowledging a mistake, error, or wrongdoing.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fess up in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fess up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of fess up in a Sentence

  1. Torrei Hart:

    But I’m also not going to allow a person to have financial gain off of my mistakes and in this particular situation that was what was attempted. I said I’d rather fess up to my mistakes.

  2. Kevin Hart:

    I'm not going to allow a person to have financial gain off of my mistakes, and in this particular situation that was what was attempted, i said I'd rather fess up to my mistakes.

  3. Roger Stone:

    Our text and email messages have to been seen in their totality to see the( sic) is no serious effort to intimidate or pressure Randy Credico to do anything, other than fess up to the truth.


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