Suss

Quick meaning: Suss is a noun meaning (UK, Australia, New Zealand, US, colloquial) Suspicious; suspect.

Meaning

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, US, colloquial) Suspicious; suspect.

More Meanings

1. (UK) Suspicious behaviour; the act of loitering with intent.
2. (transitive, UK, obsolete) To arrest for suspicious behaviour.
3. (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, often with "out") To discover, infer or figure out.
4. (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand) To study or size up, to check out (examine).
5. (UK) Social nous.
6. Alternative form of soss (“miry place”).

Example Sentences

The next painter the sultan approached was a sly old dog with more suss than a Cockney two-card trickster.

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

‘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.’

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.’

Word Forms

• susses
• sus
• sussing
• sussed

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