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Sus¹

Where it comes from

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.

proper noun

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

    Similar: Shush

sus²

  • /sʌs/
  • /sʊs/ Northern England

Sounds like suss · Rhymes with -ʌs

Where it comes from

Clipping of suspicion. Compare suss out, suss.

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.

sus³

  • /sʌs/
  • /sʊs/ Northern England

Sounds like suss · Rhymes with -ʌs

Where it comes from

Clipping of suspicious.

adjective more sus · susser · most sus · 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.
  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 ...
  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?

sus⁴

  • /sʌs/
  • /sʊs/ Northern England

Sounds like suss · Rhymes with -ʌs

Where it comes from

Clipping of suspended.

adjective

  1. abbreviation, not comparable Abbreviation of suspended

sus⁵

  • /sʌs/
  • /sʊs/ Northern England

Sounds like suss · Rhymes with -ʌs

Where it comes from

Clipping of suspend.

verb susses · sussing · sussed

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

sus⁶

  • /sʌs/
  • /sʊs/ Northern England

Sounds like suss · Rhymes with -ʌs

interjection SuS

  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 […]

    Similar: joj, sos

SUS⁷

noun SUSs · SUSes

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

SUs⁸

noun

  1. plural plural of SU

SuS⁹

interjection

  1. Alternative letter-case form of sus

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: genus sus, their, its, je, padres, plek, your, suspicious, sketchy, fishy, questionable, dubious, suspect, untrustworthy, iffy, dodgy

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Chicago

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BibTeX
@misc{sus_2026,
  title = {sus},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sus},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}