[ SLANG ][ STATUS ][ ADJECTIVE ]
Short for 'suspicious' β describes behavior, statements, or people that seem questionable, shady, or like they're hiding something.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"He said he was 'in the bathroom' for twenty minutes during the group call β kinda sus."
LORE & ORIGIN
Already established gaming slang, but pushed to viral saturation by the 2020 game Among Us, where players accused each other of being 'sus' to identify the impostor. The term outlived the game entirely and became a permanent fixture of everyday internet vocabulary for calling out anything that doesn't add up.
FIRST SEEN
2018 (gaming slang), viral 2020
PEAK POPULARITY
2020-2021 (Among Us Era), residual use ongoing
CURRENT STATUS
Legacy / Decaying Slang
EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
AURA IMPACT β
+15 AURA
TREND STATUS
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Others
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