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SOSSOS /ˌes əʊ ˈes $ -oʊ-/ noun [singular]  SOSOrigin: 1900-2000 S and O, letters chosen because they were easy to send by Morse code, but often understood as short for "save our souls" - Their frantic SOS message was picked up by a Coast Guard vessel.
- An SOS talisman is obtainable at many chemists.
- He then requested flares for landing and then put out an SOS that they were on fire.
- I mean, are we the only ones who heard the SOS?
- Roebuck was visiting his family at Bathurst, about five hours drive west of Sydney, when he received the SOS call.
- The civilian operator who took the SOS call may have heard the voice of her killer.
- This is a textbook position in which to use the SOS redouble.
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