SOS

Meanings

1. The conventional Morse code call made by a ship in distress.

1. Initialism of Secretary of State.
2. Initialism of special order sale.

1. Initialism of slip on show: a warning to a woman that the underwear she has on can be seen.

1. 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.

1. Initialism of shit on a shingle.

1. Initialism of struck off strength or stricken off strength.

1. plural of so

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.

1. plural of SO

1. Alternative letter-case form of 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.