@[email protected] The first time I heard "sus" was in connection with the game Among Us. "I suspect" a certain character. I also hear it used to express dismissal due to suspicion.
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@[email protected] It's amazing. I mean, the concept of Among Us, if I understood it correctly (I haven't played it 😅), was similar to classic offline games and board games, like Cluedo, yet we didn't shorten it to "sus". 😅 I mean, we din't say "you're sus, I think you're the murderer", yet we did say something like, "bbl, I'll buy a drink" or "gtg, bye".
Among Us really did leave an imprint in cultures and languages.
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The recent usage is a contraction of "suspicious", with basically the same meaning. Not sure how old that is, but I don't think I'd heard it 20 years ago in the USA.
There's also "suss", which I understand is a British expression for coming to understand something or figuring something out. That usage goes back to the 1980s or earlier (I just know it from TV, it's not really US usage).
@[email protected] Ooh! A British expression too and different. In a way, I can relate to the British expression "suss". It's like saying, "silly me, it was that simple".