sus

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3
Words With Friends
4
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/sʌs/
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/sʌs/ · /sʊs/

Definition of sus

11 senses · 5 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. (obsolete)Synonym of Shush (“city in Khuzestan, Iran”).
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name

  1. (obsolete)Synonym of Shush (“city in Khuzestan, Iran”).

noun

  1. (UK, informal, uncountable)Suspicion (in terms of a sus law).
    “The committee […] said ‘sus’ had acquired a symbolic significance out of all proportion to its significance as a criminal charge.”
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of sport utility sedan (“an AWD sedan with increased ground clearance and fatter knobbier tires”).
  3. (form-of, plural)plural of SU

adj

  1. (slang)Suspicious; having suspicions or questions.
    “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.”
  2. (slang)Suspicious; raising or causing people to have suspicions.
    “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 ...”
  3. (humorous, often, slang)Acting in a borderline sexually inappropriate way, causing others to "suspect" them of being sexually attracted to someone and trying to hide it.
    “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.”
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable, slang)Abbreviation of suspended.

verb

  1. (Internet, slang, transitive)To suspend an account on social media (almost exclusively Twitter/X).
    “yeah, the account posting offensive stuff got sussed.”

intj

  1. (Internet, humorous, nonce-word, slang)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.
    “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.”
  2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of sus.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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.

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