suss (out)
Definitions
General English
- phrasal verb (written as suss out)to discover something
Slang
- verb to discern, discover, deduce or realise. A vogue expression among beatniks of the early 1960s (in the longer form); it had probably been in sporadic use before that. At first the phrase usually meant to perceive someone’s true nature or intentions, it is now a fairly common colloquialism, often meaning no more than to ‘work out’.
