Suss

//sʌs// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Suspicious; suspect. Australia, New-Zealand, UK, US, colloquial

    "2001, Mo Hayder, The Treatment, 2008, Bantam, UK, page 244, ‘Yes – OK, OK. Try not to struggle, Tracey. It just makes you look even more suss.’"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of soss (“miry place”). alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    Suspicious behaviour; the act of loitering with intent. UK, uncountable
  3. 3
    Social nous. UK, uncountable

    "‘I′m surprised at you, Danny Weston! I thought you had a bit more suss than this. I never thought you were capable of something so ... silly.’"

Verb
  1. 1
    To arrest for suspicious behaviour. UK, obsolete, transitive
  2. 2
    To discover, infer or figure out. Australia, New-Zealand, UK, often, transitive

    "Think we're standing for injustice / White gets two and black gets five years / Well it took me quite a while to suss this"

  3. 3
    To study or size up, to check out (examine). Australia, New-Zealand, UK, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus.

Etymology 2

Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus.

Etymology 3

Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus.

Etymology 4

From suspect; originally suss out (“to discover or figure out”).

Etymology 5

From suspect; originally suss out (“to discover or figure out”).

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