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[-] klemptor@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

I'm familiar with the usage here but what does it mean to Gen Z?

"sus" short for "suspicious," often linked to the video game Among Us which became very popular during the pandemic. I'm not sure if that was the origin; the Zoomers seem to like their abbreviations ("rizz" being short for "charisma" is another example) but Among Us definitely popularized it.

[-] inefficient_electron@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Idk about everywhere else, but “sus” or “suss”has been common slang for “suspicious/suspect” in Australia, the UK and New Zealand for at least several decades.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

It already existed but the popularity of Among Us globalized it and gave it new wind.

[-] olutukko@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Walt I don't know man, you've been acting kinda sus lately

[-] Leg@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Have you heard the term "sussy baka" before?

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

Nope! Maybe my one-year-old niece babbled something like that once.

[-] Leg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You are very lucky.

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Among Us shit related to being suspicious.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Red and white striped is sus.

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

But they mean exactly the same thing and are slang from the same word, no?

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No. Sussed out, means to work something out. Usually implies a certain amount of trial and error, or coming to the realization slowly, depending on the context.

So, "I sussed out how to work the printer".

Sus, in British English didn't really have any meaning until the game came out.

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

From the dictionary;

Etymology

Verb

by shortening & alteration from suspect

1930s: abbreviation of suspect, suspicion.

People like you are why I have trust issues.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Those appear to be examples that were made of recently. That's a pretty bad dictionary cuz it doesn't actually say when the examples are from.

[-] ComradeBunnie@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure if you're pulling our legs or really don't know..

We've had the term "suss c*nt" in Aussie English for decades, and British English isn't that far removed.

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