adj · name · noun · verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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/sʌs/
Southern-England:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
Northern-England:/sʊs/
rhymes with -ʌs
homophone: sus
CMU ARPABET:S AH1 S
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
adj
Meaning 1
Suspicious; suspect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, US, colloquial
Examples
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.’
2009, Barbara Ward Smith, Dead Centre: Murder Mystery, AuthorHouse, UK, page 191, I think it was Amber Johnson dressed up said Marc, but its proving it, we don′t have much to go on according to her said Jan her friend has been driving her car, yes very convenient said Marc and it′s even more suss that this friend has gone on holiday, did she ever give us the name of this mystical friend? Asked Jan.
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2
name
Meaning 2
A surname
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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3
noun
Meaning 3
Alternative form of soss (“miry place”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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4
noun
Meaning 4
Suspicious behaviour; the act of loitering with intent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, uncountable
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5
noun
Meaning 5
Social nous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 6
To arrest for suspicious behaviour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To discover, infer or figure out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
2008, David Burchell, Trying to find the sunny side of life, Tony Jones, Best Australian Political Writing, page 275, It occurred to me that Matt′s mates, far from being proper objects of solicitation and sympathy, actually must feel they had life sussed.
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verb
Meaning 8
To study or size up, to check out (examine).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, transitive
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History
Etymology
Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus.
From suspect; originally suss out (“to discover or figure out”).
