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sussing

sussing is the present participle and gerund of suss.

sussing is the present participle and gerund of sus.

Meaning of suss

Verb (1)

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

  1. (UK, obsolete, transitive) To arrest for suspicious behaviour.

Verb (2)

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

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, often, transitive) To discover, infer or figure out.
    • Think we're standing for injustice / White gets two and black gets five years / Well it took me quite a while to suss this1993, “Emergency On Planet Earth”, performed by Jamiroquai
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, transitive) To study or size up, to check out (examine).

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Meaning of sus

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.

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Phrases with sussing

Questions about sussing

What is sussing the present participle and gerund of?
Sussing is the present participle and gerund of suss.

Words near sussing in the dictionary

  1. Sussexman
  2. Sussexmen
  3. Sussexshire
  4. sussier
  5. sussiest
  6. sussing
  7. sussing out
  8. Susskind
  9. Susskinds
  10. Sussman
  11. Sussmans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sussing (page history and authors); suss (page history and authors); sus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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