Sos
//ˌɛs.oʊˈɛs// intj, noun, phrase, slang
intj, noun, phrase, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The conventional Morse code call made by a ship in distress.
"The crew sent a frantic SOS as they realised the scale of the disaster."
- 2 Initialism of Secretary of State. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 3 A children's game in which players take turns to place S's and O's on a grid, collecting points by creating an "SOS" sequence. uncountable
- 4 Initialism of shit on a shingle. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 5 plural of so form-of, plural
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- 6 plural of SO form-of, plural
- 7 an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code wordnet
- 8 Initialism of special order sale. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Phrase
- 1 Initialism of slip on show: a warning to a woman that the underwear she has on can be seen. abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, initialism
- 2 Initialism of struck off strength or stricken off strength. Commonwealth, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
Intj
- 1 A nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style, and to describe palindromes and humorously symmetrized images. Internet, humorous, nonce-word
"she JOJ on my SOS til i LOL"
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of sos. alt-of
Antonyms
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More examples"Before the ship sank, the radio operator broadcast one final message - SOS!"
Etymology
From the letters represented by the signal, chosen as a sequence that is easy to recall and transmit (· · · — — — · · ·); it is not, as is commonly believed, an abbreviation for "save our souls", "save our ship", or any other phrase.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.