What does っす at the end of a sentence mean?


I saw a sentence like:

> 「それ使{つか}ってる **っ** す。」

and none of my dictionaries have an entry for just "っす". Is it a verb form,
gobi, or something else?




It's a contraction of です. It's not quite as polite as that though - it's
always sounded a bit like "thinking that one needs to be polite but not
bothering to do it properly" to me. I guess it comes somewhere between
teineigo-level polite and casual in the politeness spectrum.




It's a contraction of です. It's not quite as polite as that though - it's
always sounded a bit like "thinking that one needs to be polite but not
bothering to do it properly" to me. I guess it comes somewhere between
teineigo-level polite and casual in the politeness spectrum.

