sus

adj

Etymology: Clipping of suspended.

1. Abbreviation of suspended.

intj

1. 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 […]”

   “ViV [video in video], lagging or stuttering images to get figures to say nonsense words (“SuS”), became popular. […] What appears as chaos, nonsense, or distortion to someone outside the subculture turns out to be a set of references added on as layers and layers of images. Using rapid forward reverse and word-splice editing to make someone else’s project lag or getting a character to say “SuS” or “JoJ” becomes a form of legible code that has a multiplicity of possible orders.”

name

Etymology: 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.

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

noun

Etymology: Clipping of suspicion. Compare suss out, suss.

1. 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.”

verb

Etymology: Clipping of suspend.

1. To suspend an account on social media (almost exclusively Twitter/X).

   “yeah, the account posting offensive stuff got sussed.”