suss out
to discover or investigate the truth
TRANSLATION
suss out =etw. herausfinden, dahinterkommen --- GOOGLE INDEX suss out: approximately 400,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Moscow sent its special representative to Islamabad to SUSS OUT what the Pakistanis want and offer economic help, such as refurbishing Pakistan's one and only steel mill, built with Russian help in the 1970s.
(BBC News)
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Clothes I find a bit tricky: I never know what to wear, so I SUSS OUT what the other lads are wearing first.
(British musician Olly Murs)
(BBC News)
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Clothes I find a bit tricky: I never know what to wear, so I SUSS OUT what the other lads are wearing first.
(British musician Olly Murs)
Did you
know?
suss out
verbal phrase, slang
- to discover the true character or nature of something
- to realize or grasp
(Oxford Dictionary)
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According to Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, the expression suss out originated in Britain in the 1960s and remains chiefly British slang, although it's becoming more popular in other English-speaking countries.
Most of the major dictionaries suggest that suss is simply a shortened form of "suspect" and there is some evidence that it was used as far back as the 1920s as a verb meaning "to suspect." It has also been used as a shortened form of the noun suspicion (The police arrested him on suss), as well as a noun meaning knowledge or understanding (He's got suss).
Like many slang phrases however, the exact origin and timeframe of this expression is, shall we say, difficult to suss out.
(sources. Grammarphobia, Oxford Dictionary)
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SYNONYMS
ascertain, check, check out, detect, determine, establish, figure out, size up
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verbal phrase, slang
- to discover the true character or nature of something
- to realize or grasp
(Oxford Dictionary)
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According to Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, the expression suss out originated in Britain in the 1960s and remains chiefly British slang, although it's becoming more popular in other English-speaking countries.
Most of the major dictionaries suggest that suss is simply a shortened form of "suspect" and there is some evidence that it was used as far back as the 1920s as a verb meaning "to suspect." It has also been used as a shortened form of the noun suspicion (The police arrested him on suss), as well as a noun meaning knowledge or understanding (He's got suss).
Like many slang phrases however, the exact origin and timeframe of this expression is, shall we say, difficult to suss out.
(sources. Grammarphobia, Oxford Dictionary)
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SYNONYMS
ascertain, check, check out, detect, determine, establish, figure out, size up
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Suss out what the competition is offering before developing your strategy."
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Thanks to Ron for suggesting today's word!
