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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. A variant of soss.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Suspicious.
  2. v. To discover, infer or figure out something (often used with out.)
  3. v. To study or size up something.

Etymologies

  1. Probably short for suspect.

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  • cxkang Also made popular by the Radiohead song, "High and Dry"
    not really used in my neighborhood Apr 22, 2009

  • oroboros "But the truth was out for all to see long before the big-name take-downs. For months sourcewatch.org has identified Martin Eisenstadt as a hoax. When Mr. Stein was the victim, he blogged that “there was enough info on the Web that I should have sussed this thing out.�?

    --NY Times story about an internet hoax. Nov 16, 2008

‘suss’ has been looked up 2248 times, loved by 1 person, added to 24 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 4.