suss out
English
Etymology
From suspect.
Verb
suss out (third-person singular simple present susses out, present participle sussing out, simple past and past participle sussed out)
- (slang, transitive) To come to understand (a person).
- We've sussed him out — he only drinks on Fridays and only in that bar in town.
- 2019 March 19, Mike McKee, “The Case of the Missing Data”, in Dark Reading:
- In essence, security experts most familiar with this breach believe that a nation-state — likely China or Russia — stole the data in order to suss out current spies and pick out potential targets they could recruit as spies.
- (slang, transitive) To manage to work (something) out, to determine (something).
- We've sussed out how to open the lock.
- 2012 April 20, “Electric cars: Difference Engine: Tailpipe truths”, in The Economist:
- As far as electric cars are concerned, motorists have sussed out that they do not make particularly good financial sense, even with a $7,500 handout from the federal government.
Translations
to work out, to determine
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