put one's hands up

• put one's hand up

put one's hands up (third-person singular simple present puts one's hand up, present participle putting one's hand up, simple past and past participle put one's hand up)

1. To raise one's hands.
2. To surrender.
3. (colloquial, with 'to') To confess or admit (to something).

   OK, I'll put my hands up to stealing the car, but not to robbing the off-licence.

• Tony Thorne (2014) “put one's hands up”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

• put up one's hands