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Sus

//sʌs// adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Suspicious; having suspicions or questions. slang

    "Even my lame psychic ability told me he'd be pretty sus if he found me pissing on in the lounge room on a week night."

  2. 2
    Abbreviation of suspended. abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable, slang
  3. 3
    Suspicious; raising or causing people to have suspicions. slang

    "Why this should be I will never know except I might be a pretty sus looking geezer or something. They took about six of us who were in the cafe down the nick and dubbed us up in separate peters. After a long while these two bogies came into ..."

  4. 4
    Acting in a borderline sexually inappropriate way, causing others to "suspect" them of being sexually attracted to someone and trying to hide it. humorous, often, slang

    "That guy is always acting sus with the boys—are you sure he's not gay?"

Intj
  1. 1
    A nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style, and to describe palindromes and humorously symmetrized images. Internet, humorous, nonce-word, slang

    "You better fuf, and then you better broob, 'cause if you don't broob, you're nothing but a nothing, and then the nothing becomes a nothing, and then your nothing is a joj, and then your nothing is sus […]"

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of sus. alt-of
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of Shush (“city in Khuzestan, Iran”). obsolete
Noun
  1. 1
    Suspicion (in terms of a sus law). UK, informal, uncountable

    "The committee […] said ‘sus’ had acquired a symbolic significance out of all proportion to its significance as a criminal charge."

  2. 2
    Abbreviation of sport utility sedan (“an AWD sedan with increased ground clearance and fatter knobbier tires”). abbreviation, alt-of
  3. 3
    plural of SU form-of, plural
Slang
  1. 1
    Suspicious or sketchy. slang, gaming, 2020s

    "That account is sus."

Verb
  1. 1
    To suspend an account on social media (almost exclusively Twitter/X). Internet, slang, transitive

    "yeah, the account posting offensive stuff got sussed."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian سوس (sus), alternative form of شوش (šuš), from Middle Persian 𐭮𐭥𐭱𐭩 (sūš), from Old Persian 𐏂𐎢𐏁𐎠 (çūšā), from Elamite 𒀸𒋗𒊺𒂗 (šušen). Doublet of Susa and Shush.

Etymology 2

Clipping of suspicion. Compare suss out, suss.

Etymology 3

Clipping of suspicious.

Etymology 4

Clipping of suspended.

Etymology 5

Clipping of suspend.

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