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  • verb intransitive, slang (frequently used in the imperative) To confess to something; to admit something.

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  • verb admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

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Aphetic form of confess + up.

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  • (v) to acknowledge, admit, concede, confess, own up

    July 17, 2008