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Ok, I'll fess up that this was my first thought too.

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(heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield

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noun

(heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fess.

noun

(heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield

Example sentences

Ok, I'll fess up that this was my first thought too.

I think it's only good if they fess up to it.

Nice to see a blogger 'fess up to cynical link baiting.

She won't fess up to who, and I have reason to believe it's her "educators".

OK, fess up, who else thought that the Tigre had an ejection seat because they saw it in a James Bond movie?

But I have to fess up that I miss C# and Java as their verbosity is actually an investment, not wasted time.

I did a talk last year at BlackHat EU on one example[1] where I finally managed to get the developers to fess up the source.

Google has been under continuous hacking attack from China and so far they haven't had to 'fess up to storing passwords in plaintext.

If I have to buy a license I have fess up, and admit to myself I need their code, whereas if I can just use it freely there isn't that moral barrier to cross.

At the risk of professing an attitude that I generally dislike: there's no proper tone to take other than full responsibility.

There's a middle ground; it is better to fess up and try to square things with your customers in a situation where you've done wrong, but at the same time you don't want to be exploited by unscrupulous plaintiffs in turn.

Well, setting aside that laser discs actually were optical disks read by a laser, "Ultrabook" is an Intel coinage for parts assembling OEMs to use so that they don't have to fess up to the existence of the Macbook Air.