Usually means: Distress signal for urgent help.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word SOS:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. sos: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. SOS, SOS, sos: Merriam-Webster
  3. SOS: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. SOS: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. SOS: Collins English Dictionary
  6. SOS: Vocabulary.com
  7. SOS, SO's, SOs, So's, Sos, so's, sos, sos: Wordnik
  8. SOS, sos: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. S.O.S, so's, sos: Wiktionary
  10. SOS, s.o.s: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. SOS: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. SOS: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. SOS, s.o.s: Dictionary.com
  14. SOS: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sos: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. S.O.S, S.O.S. (ABC song), S.O.S. (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), S.O.S. (Let the Music Play), S.O.S. (Lost), S.O.S. (Pink Lady song), S.O.S. (Rihanna song), S.O.S. (S.O.S. Band album), S.O.S. (Stratovarius song), S.O.S. (Too Bad), S.O.S. (appetizer), S.O.S (Jonas Brothers song), S.O.S (The Tiger Took My Family), SOS (ABBA song), SOS (Avicii song), SOS (Indonesian group), SOS (Jonas Brothers song), SOS (Millencolin album), SOS (Rihanna song), SOS (arcade game), SOS (band), SOS (disambiguation), SOS (game), SOS (video game), SOS, Sos: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sos: Rhymezone
  18. S.O.S, SOS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. sos: FreeDictionary.org
  20. sos: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. SOS: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. SOS: bizterms.net
  5. SOS: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. SOS: Investopedia
  7. SOS: Financial dictionary
  8. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. SOS: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. SOS: Netlingo
  3. SOS: CCI Computer
  4. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. SOS: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. SOS: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SOS: Glossary of Lasik Laser Eye Surgery
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. SOS, s.o.s, s.o.s: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SOS: Acronym Finder
  2. SOS: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. S.O.S, S.O.S, S.O.S. ( Shiney Object Syndrome), so's, sos: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SOS: Skydiving Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SOS: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. S.O.S, S.O.S: Latitude Mexico
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The conventional Morse code call made by a ship in distress.
noun:  (games) 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.
noun:  Initialism of Secretary of State. [Any of several senior government positions whose function varies from nation to nation.]
noun:  Initialism of special order sale. [(retail) The sale of an item that is not stocked by ordering it from another company]
noun:  Initialism of shit on a shingle. [(US, military, slang, vulgar) Creamed chipped beef on toast.]

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