Rank suspicion about cheap stuff (6)
I believe the answer is:
status
'rank' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'suspicion about cheap stuff' is the wordplay.
'suspicion' becomes 'sus' (I've seen this in other clues).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cheap stuff' becomes 'tat' (I have seen 'Shoddy stuff' mean 'tat' so perhaps 'stuff' could also mean 'tat'. I am not sure about the 'cheap' bit.**).
'sus' placed around 'tat' is 'STATUS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for status that I've seen before include "Position in organisation or in society" , "Position in society etc" , "Social ranking" , "Standing position, perhaps" , "One's standing in the community" .)