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Suss
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- 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.’"
- 1 A surname
- 1 Alternative form of soss (“miry place”). alt-of, alternative
- 2 Suspicious behaviour; the act of loitering with intent. UK, uncountable
- 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.’"
- 1 To arrest for suspicious behaviour. UK, obsolete, transitive
- 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 To study or size up, to check out (examine). Australia, New-Zealand, UK, transitive
Etymology
Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus.
Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus.
Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus.
From suspect; originally suss out (“to discover or figure out”).
From suspect; originally suss out (“to discover or figure out”).
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