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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suss
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ This does take a bit of sussing out, but once mastered it all makes sense.
▪ It's a really good way to keep an eye on other sprinters and suss out the competition.
▪ So look to the future and suss out the science of beauty.
▪ She'd suss out right away that there was something fishy going on.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I could see her checking out every point on the landscape, sussing the locality.
▪ I didn't suss things out for a bit.
▪ It's a really good way to keep an eye on other sprinters and suss out the competition.
▪ It was my mate Graham who helped me suss things out.
▪ Jo Saunders, a Re-evaluation Co-counsellor came to suss me out and see whether I was worthy of her efforts.
▪ She was trying to be ever so casual but I knew she was trying to suss things out.
▪ So look to the future and suss out the science of beauty.
▪ This does take a bit of sussing out, but once mastered it all makes sense.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
suss

"to figure out, investigate and discover," 1966, earlier "to suspect" (1953, police jargon), a slang shortening of suspect (v.). Related: Sussed.

Wiktionary
suss

Etymology 1

  1. (context UK Australia New Zealand colloquial English) suspicious. n. (context UK English) Suspicious behaviour; the act of loitering with intent. v

  2. (context transitive UK obsolete English) To arrest for suspicious behaviour. Etymology 2

    n. (context UK English) Social nous. vb. 1 (context transitive UK Australia New Zealand often with "out" English) To discover, infer or figure out. 2 (context transitive UK Australia New Zealand English) To study or size up, to check out (examine).

WordNet
Wikipedia
Süß

Süß (transliterated into English: Suess) is a German surname meaning sweet and may refer to:

  • Christoph Süß, German comedian
  • Eduard Suess (1831-1914), Austrian geologist
  • Hans Suess (1909-1993), Austrian physical chemist and nuclear physicist
  • Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698-1738), German-Jewish banker, the subject of the 1827 novella Jud Süß
  • A misspelling of Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), American writer and cartoonist

Usage examples of "suss".

I then suss them out and if they look alright, I tell them that my intended occupants are late and they can get in.

I had a lovely time wandering the shops, noshing a bit, sussing out antiques.

He owns most of the Old Bill on the Island, and I want to spring an old mate without Lewis sussing anything about it.

Anyway, we spent a couple of months schlepping round these country houses, sussing out what was where, what was worth nicking and what the security was like.

Fortunately us fellows have got a talent for sussing out lies, or ought to have.

So could moster the others in the room, them and their Filofaxes, now that he had them sussed out.

The skull-capped men at the showroom counter have sussed out this much: Garvey Violet is stacked well behind the counter, so it can only be purchased, never shoplifted.

Yet not once had they sussed the house that the Scousers were using as an annexe.

If there was somebody undercover who'd managed 453 to infiltrate this outfit, then we wouldnae have needed you to suss out what the plan was, and there'd have been a zillion cops waitin' for them here last night.

He fiddles with a key in the already unlocked door, eventually sussing he doesn't need the key, and blunders on into the office.

She fussed over the circles, which were so oddly placed, gave up on them, and tried to suss out the rectangles.

I’ y‘ dinnae hear frae me wi’in th’ week, or i‘ y’ hae reason to suss thae Ah’m blown or y’re under’s‘picion, y’ promise’t‘ haul oot like y’ hae a Campbell a’ter y’r skirts?

She was adept enough at sussing her immediate surroundings without appearing to do so, yet she had the sense that Sean was aware of her automatic scanning.

He stayed close to the boss trying to suss out his mood as the boss strode over to where the noisy horse was kept.

Ferdie, bored of not selling houses in London and wanting to suss out properties in Paradise, said he would be straight down to orchestrate the whole thing.