Associations to the word «Sos»

Wiktionary

SOS, symbol. (radio slang) emergency, mayday, distress
SOS, noun. The conventional Morse code call made by a ship in distress.
SOS, noun. Secretary of State
SOS, noun. Special order sale
SOS, noun. (games) a children's game involving placing S's and O's on a grid, and collecting points by creating an "SOS" sequence, played with alternating turns by opponents.

Dictionary definition

SOS, noun. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne