Usually means: Crying with loud, convulsive breaths.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. SOB's, SOBs, sobs: Merriam-Webster
  2. sobs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sobs: Collins English Dictionary
  4. SOBS, sobs: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sobs, sobs: Wordnik
  6. sobs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. SOBs, sobs: Wiktionary
  8. sobs: Dictionary.com
  9. sobs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. SOB's: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. S.O.B.s, sobs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sobs: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SOBS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. sobs: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sobs: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. SOBS: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sob as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (SOB)

noun:  A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
noun:  (onomatopoeia) sound of sob
verb:  (intransitive) To weep with convulsive gasps.
verb:  (transitive) To say (something) while sobbing.
verb:  To soak.
noun:  (countable, vulgar, slang) Initialism of son of a bitch. [(derogatory or offensive, slang, vulgar, usually referring specifically to a man, chiefly US, Canada) An objectionable, despicable person.]
noun:  (uncountable) Initialism of shortness of breath. [Difficulty in breathing.]
noun:  (aviation, in the plural) Initialism of souls on board.
noun:  (speedrunning) Initialism of sum of best. [(speedrunning) The total combined time of the fastest segments or splits achieved in a speedrun of a video game, representing the theoretical fastest time that a speedrunner could achieve at their current level of skill.]
noun:  (business) Initialism of start of business.
noun:  (business, finance) Initialism of share of business.
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