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@mod_asleep · Archivist
1 Nov 2020
'That's sus' said of a spreadsheet formula in a 2021 finance meeting, correctly.
Sus
Suspicious, or suspect, clipped; a slang word with roots in British police jargon and 2000s American English that Among Us handed to the entire planet in 2020 as the only word needed to accuse a crewmate. The record notes 'sus' is now used by children who have never played the game and by adults who have never stopped.
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Urban Dictionary, 2003 (short for 'suspect'); Among Us, 2020
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@speedrun_stella · Archivist
12 Mar 2020
Correction: 'sus' did not come from Among Us. It was on Urban Dictionary in 2003 and in the mouths of British police much earlier; the game merely made it the most-typed word of a lockdown.
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