# sus

Pronunciation: say "SUS" /sʌs/

## Adjective

1. Causing people to be suspicious; seeming dishonest, questionable, or not to be trusted. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Seeming dishonest or wrong, so that people start to feel suspicious.
   - _The seller's reviews all looked sus, with the same wording repeated over and over._
   - _Something about the deal felt sus, so they walked away from the table._
2. Feeling suspicious; harboring doubts or questions about someone or something. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Feeling that someone or something might be wrong or not honest.
   - _He was sus of the new manager from the very first meeting._
   - _I get sus whenever a stranger is that friendly that fast._
3. Abbreviation of suspended: of a chord in music, with the third replaced by the second or fourth note, as in Csus4. — Abbreviation of suspended.
   - Simple: Short form of suspended. Used in music for a suspended chord.
   - _The intro rests on a sus chord before the band kicks in._
   - _She voiced a gentle sus chord to leave the harmony hanging._
4. Behaving in a borderline sexually suggestive way that leads others to joke that one is secretly attracted to someone and hiding it. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Behaving in a slightly flirty way that makes people joke someone secretly likes another person.
   - _His comment about his friend's abs came off a little sus._
   - _After he offered to rub sunscreen on his best friend's back again, the group called him sus._

## Noun

5. Suspicion of intending to commit an offense, as invoked under the former British 'sus law' permitting arrest on that ground alone. *(colloquial, UK)*
   - Simple: In Britain in the past, the police's belief that someone might be planning a crime, which was enough to arrest them.
   - _Plenty of young men in the neighborhood were charged on sus during those years._
   - _Under the old law, British police could arrest someone on sus just for hanging around near parked cars._

## Verb

6. To suspend a user's account on social media, especially Twitter or X, blocking further access. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To shut down someone's social media account so they can no longer use it.
   - _Keep posting those leaked screenshots and they'll sus your account again, maybe for good._
   - _Admins sussed several troll accounts during the height of the argument._

## Other meanings

- (interjection) A nonsense exclamation used in YouTube Poop videos, marking audio played forward then reversed, and extended to palindromes and mirror-symmetric images.

## Origin

**Meaning 5** — A clipping of 'suspicion'.
**Meanings 1–2, 4** — A clipping of 'suspicious'.
**Meaning 3** — A clipping of 'suspended'.
**Meaning 6** — A clipping of 'suspend'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/sus (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).