sus
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of suspicion. Compare suss out, suss.
Inflected forms:
form: more sus
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: susser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sus
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sussest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: susses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sussed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: SuS
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Suspicion (in terms of a sus law).
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
uncountable
examples: The committee […] said ‘sus’ had acquired a symbolic significance out of all proportion to its significance as a criminal charge.
gloss: Suspicious; having suspicions or questions.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
Everyone had been a bit sus about Mrs Jones and Lana Vilenskaya, so it wasn't surprising that Mrs Jones stood to speak.
I'm still really sus about those crocs we found in the drains.
gloss: Suspicious; raising or causing people to have suspicions.
pos: adj
examples: 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 ...
gloss: Acting in a borderline sexually inappropriate way, causing others to "suspect" them of being sexually attracted to someone and trying to hide it.
pos: adj
tags: humorous
often
examples: That guy is always acting sus with the boys—are you sure he's not gay?
I was acting sus with my friend turns out he's gay I don't think he was joking
Maybe I’m a sus hetero bro who's been subtly abusive and deserves to be blocked out entirely.
Gf [30] was acting sus around another guy and not sure If im [M20] just overthinking it.
I've also heard many instances of him acting sus with girls.
Totally not being sus with my controller
gloss: To suspend an account on social media (almost exclusively Twitter/X).
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: yeah, the account posting offensive stuff got sussed.
gloss: 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.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
humorous
nonce-word
examples: 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 […]
ViV [video in video], lagging or stuttering images to get figures to say nonsense words (“SuS”), became popular. […] What appears as chaos, nonsense, or distortion to someone outside the subculture turns out to be a set of references added on as layers and layers of images. Using rapid forward reverse and word-splice editing to make someone else’s project lag or getting a character to say “SuS” or “JoJ” becomes a form of legible code that has a multiplicity of possible orders.
Related words: ayo
Derived words: sussy
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