‘Sus’ From Among Us Made It Onto Tonight’s Episode Of Jeopardy
Amongst Us didn’t invent the phrase, I do know, nevertheless it’s definitely accountable for its explosion in reputation over the previous couple of years, so it shouldn’t be too shocking to see “sus” lastly make it onto the sport present Jeopardy.
In tonight’s episode, contestants got the immediate “Slang adjective for somebody you suppose just isn’t what they appear, particularly in the event that they is likely to be the imposter within the sport ‘Amongst Us’”.
Mattea nailed it:
Like I mentioned, Amongst Us didn’t invent the phrase. Its recorded historical past goes again nearly a century, when it was utilized in Britain as “police jargon”. To say somebody was “sus” was merely…shortening the phrase “suspect”, the very same that means used as we speak (and within the sport).
Whereas the phrase has some troublesome connotations—it was utilized in reference to some stop-and-search police search legal guidelines within the UK which turned out to be enormously racist—it has remained in fixed use since, together with its sibling “to suss one thing out”, which dwelling in Australia I nonetheless hear on a regular basis.
Of course my Dad and his mates utilizing the phrase wouldn’t clarify its wider adoption by web tradition, in any other case we’d all even be saying “you’ve acquired Buckley’s probability”, or while you fall off one thing you’ve “come a cropper”. Using “sus” as popularised within the final 20 years comes as a substitute from its adoption by black communities on-line:
Since sus predates the web, there’s no document of its first use on-line. However A number of archived sources state that Black web communities initially started utilizing the slang on social media websites and boards.
The earliest City Dictionary definition was posted in August 2003 by a person named Diego who outlined the time period as merely, “Quick for ‘suspect’ or suspicious.’” Since then, sus grew to become a standard American flip of phrase that was extra extensively used to explain something that makes somebody elevate their eyebrow.
This may now be the a part of the weblog the place I’d ask you to counsel the subsequent “gamer” phrase that ought to seem on the present, however we’d all die of embarrassment writing and/or studying them, so perhaps we’ll simply move.