sus

Noun (1)

sus (uncountable)

1. (UK, informal) 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.2002, Simon James, British Government: A Reader in Policy Making, page 84

Adjective

sus (comparative more sus or susser, superlative most sus or sussest)

1. 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.2010, Olwyn Conrau, The Importance of Being Cool, Carindale: Glass House Brooks, page 134
   • 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
2. 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 ...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
3. (humorous, often) 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 joking2021 September 9, @COGxCam, Twitter, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2023

Verb

sus (third-person singular simple present susses, present participle sussing, simple past and past participle sussed)

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

Interjection (1)

1. (Internet, humorous, nonce-word) 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 […]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...[2021, Randall Halle, “Cine-Cognition: Collage, Fragmentation, Integration” (chapter 6), in Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference in Cinema, →ISBN, pages 94–95

   Synonyms:

   joj, sos

Noun (2) capitalized: SUS

SUS (plural SUSs or SUSes)

1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of sport utility sedan (“an AWD sedan with increased ground clearance and fatter knobbier tires”).

Noun (3) capitalized: SUs

SUs

1. (plural) plural of SU

Interjection (2) capitalized: SuS

1. Alternative letter-case form of sus.

Proper noun capitalized: Sus

Sus

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

   Synonyms:

   Shush