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Sus

Short for 'suspicious' or 'suspect' — popularised by the game Among Us.

The comparisoni

✗ Wrong

He's acting very suspicious, that's sus.

✓ Correct

He's acting really sus lately — something's off.

More examplesii

01

Red is suspicious.

Red is sus, vote them out.

02

I don't trust her, she seems suspicious

She's been acting sus lately ngl

The ruleiii

Sus = suspicious.

It originated as police/crime slang ('sus laws'), was adopted in gaming, then exploded into mainstream internet culture.

Memory aidiv

Remember it like this

Sus = shorten suspicious the same way you shorten 'suspicious' to 'sus-picious'.

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