suss

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Pretty much he goes to the supermarket and purchases really suss, gross looking food, then eats it and shares his experience with us all.

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  1. transitive verb Slang To infer or discover; figure out: "I think I'm good at sussing out what's going on” (Ry Cooder).
  2. transitive verb Slang To size up; study: "Suss out the designers in whom you are interested” (Lucia van der Post).

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  • Pretty much he goes to the supermarket and purchases really suss, gross looking food, then eats it and shares his experience with us all. —  Aussie-Nintendo.com Forums
  • "Push" is an action thriller about psychic espionage in which people fall into various categories such as watchers who can see the future, movers (or telekinetics, who can move objects with their mind), sniffers (who suss out information with smell) and the all-powerful pushers, who can implant ideas in other people's minds. —  post-gazette.com - News
  • Cap his intake, and then have to count bottles or suss out whether he's drinking off-campus? —  Tomato Nation
  • "Those are quite different and we're trying to really suss through what we think that means for us." —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • JLA / The Brave and the Bold featuring Hawkman and Gangbuster, the Trinity suss out the location of the Anti-Trinity, and lead all of the DCU's major super-teams against them, while Hakwman and G.B. to look for Tarot. —  Every Day Is Like Wednesday
 

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