verb
- to admit or confess to something, especially something wrong or embarrassing
Usage: informal
Examples
- I have to fess up about breaking the vase.
- She finally fessed to eating the last cookie.
- Come on, fess up – did you forget to do your homework?
- He fessed that he had been lying about his grades.
- The student fessed up to cheating on the test.
- You might as well fess now before someone finds out.