to 'sus' something out
I heard this used a lot in England and heard it recently crop up here stateside. I can't remember the derivation. Any ideas?
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What's it mean - to "flesh out" details?...or to "put out", as in a cigarette? Or...?
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It's a clipped form of "suspect" or "suspicion". These were the original senses, but the verb has aquired a greater degree of confidence and is now more often used to mean "figure out".v
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there's also a sense that's sort of like: "to get a vibe for." to see what a situation feels like. to probe. to send out feelers.it's kind of tentacly.neat word.
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it's interesting that the old french roots of both "suspect" and "suspicion" have a lot of the sense of "looking up to" or "admiration" in them.and eventually, there is a link to "sub" and thence to...
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sus law Inf. Sus in this expression, is sort for suspect. This troublesome law corresponded, to a certain degree, to the American vagrancy laws and was subtitled loitering with intent. sus out has two...
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I have heard this expression. I had always assumed that it was a clipped form of "assess". If you say the word assess quickly enough, it even sounds like "sus". The word is not even in my dictionary,...
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I can't date this piece of slang, but it was certainly very common parlance during my teens in the late seventies (in the UK).The notorious 'Sus' law was repealed in Britain around the early...
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Urban opposition to the UK's 'sus' laws were one of the main causes of the 1981 riots in Brixton (London) and Toxteth (Liverpool).
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