Definition of "suss" [suss]

• Slang To infer or discover; figure out: "I think I'm good at sussing out what's going on” ( Ry Cooder). (verb-transitive)
• Slang To size up; study: "Suss out the designers in whom you are interested” ( Lucia van der Post). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Sometimes it's even people you're working with - but you kind of suss out which ones are the baby demons."
• "It helps if you can "suss" out the academic culture and get a feel for what things are like in that person's office, etc."
• "What you see here are some fun drawings done in charcoal, which I love doing, that just kind of suss out the directions of the art."