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VARIOUS BRITISH AND US MAGAZINES
Boys Own; Boy's Own; Boy's Own Magazine
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own up
If you own up to something wrong that you have done, you admit that you did it.
The headmaster is waiting for someone to own up...
Last year my husband owned up to a secret affair with his secretary.
= admit
PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P to n/-ing
own up
v. (colloq.) (D; intr.) ('to confess') to own up to (he owned up to stealing the watch)
own up
admit to having done something wrong or embarrassing.
Wikipedia
Boys' Own
Boys' Own or Boy's Own or Boys Own, is the title of a varying series of similarly titled magazines, story papers, and newsletters published at various times and by various publishers, in the United Kingdom and the United States, from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, for preteen and teenage boys.
Examples of use of own up
1. Financiers have yet to own up publicly to their own greed, arrogance and incompetence.
2. We might as well own up to the reality that we can‘t get enough of O.J.
3. Foreign investors can own up to 4' percent of Emaars stock.
4. Imperial may own up to 10 percent of the project, the newspaper said.
5. No top military official had the guts to own up to his or her crimes.