sussedadj.
/sʌst/, U.S. /səst/ British colloquial.
Well-informed, in the know; streetwise, ‘cool’.
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1984 Sounds 29 Dec. 7/5 Like HaN fanzine for sussed skins, the National Mod meeting..was one of the happier aspects of '84 street culture.
1987 Melody Maker 8 Aug. 16/2 But where Edwyn goes wrong in terms of getting higher than no. 93, and goes right in terms of being too sussed to smooth his own path, is in making you laugh when you want to cry, and vice versa.
1990 Gay Times June 29/2 I butt in—‘Em, em’—in my most sussed manner!
1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State v. 144 The scallies that were at the Haçienda were the more progressive ones, more sussed.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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