Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Clipping of suspicion. Compare suss out, suss.
The committee […] said ‘sus’ had acquired a symbolic significance out of all proportion to its significance as a criminal charge.2002, Simon James, British Government: A Reader in Policy Making, page 84:
Clipping of suspicious.
Everyone had been a bit sus about Mrs Jones and Lana Vilenskaya, so it wasn't surprising that Mrs Jones stood to speak.2015, Peter King, The Weaving, Wellington: Peter King Publishing:
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.2010, Olwyn Conrau, The Importance of Being Cool, Carindale: Glass House Brooks, page 134:
I'm still really sus about those crocs we found in the drains.2018, Ron Chinchen, Scent of the Beast, Bloomington: Xlibris:
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 ...1972, Frank Norman, The lives of Frank Norman: told in extracts from his autobiographical books Banana boy, Stand on me, Bang to rights, The guntz:
Gf [30] was acting sus around another guy and not sure If im [M20] just overthinking it.2022 October 31, u/Keggerbev, “(post title)”, in Reddit, r/Advice, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2023:
Maybe I’m a sus hetero bro who's been subtly abusive and deserves to be blocked out entirely.2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:
Totally not being sus with my controller2023 August 6, @bridaaah, Twitter, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2023:
I've also heard many instances of him acting sus with girls.2023 March 9, u/rainbows_are_a_mess, “The Bombay Movie Club”, in Reddit, r/mumbai, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2023:
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 joking2021 September 9, @COGxCam, Twitter, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2023:
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most sus | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| susser | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| sussest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more sus | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Clipping of suspended.
Clipping of suspend.
yeah, the account posting offensive stuff got sussed.
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sussed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| sussed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| susses | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| sussing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
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 […]2019 June 11, Alfred Coleman III, “Minecraft w/ PaperBoxHouse #2”, in YouTube:
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.[2021, Randall Halle, “Cine-Cognition: Collage, Fragmentation, Integration” (chapter 6), in Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference in Cinema, →ISBN, pages 94–95:
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SuS | alternative | lexicographic |