| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| SOS➣MAYDAY (logging abbreviation) |
| SOS➣Save Our Ship (distress call; common but incorrect) |
| SOS➣Sibling Over Shoulder (chat) |
| SOS➣[not an acronym] a common misconception is that SOS means Save Our Ship/Souls (a distress call); the letters don't actually stand for anything |
| SOS➣Secretary Of State |
| SOS➣Sound On Sound |
| SOS➣Somali Shilling (ISO currency code) |
| SOS➣Strength of Schedule (sports statistic) |
| SOS➣Sense of Security |
| SOS➣Signs of Suicide (prevention program) |
| SOS➣Speed of Sound |
| SOS➣State of the Science (conference) |
| SOS➣Siuslaw Outreach Services (Florence, OR) |
| SOS➣Switched-On Schoolhouse (Alpha Omega Publications) |
| SOS➣Save Our Souls |
| SOS➣Socialstyrelsen (Sweden: national board of health and welfare) |
| SOS➣Superintendent of Schools (various locations) |
| SOS➣Sounds of Silence |
| SOS➣Son of Sam |
| SOS➣School of Spanish (Quest Language Studies) |
| SOS➣Sauce on Side (culinary term) |
| SOS➣Sex on Sunday |
| SOS➣System Of Systems |
| SOS➣Special Operations Squadron |
| SOS➣Silicon On Sapphire |
| SOS➣Sounds of Subterrania |
| SOS➣Save Our Selves |
| SOS➣Stop Only Sugar (nutrition) |
| SOS➣Skoop on Somebody (Japanese band) |
| SOS➣Sink or Swim (Super Nintendo video game) |
| SOS➣Sharing Our Stories |
| SOS➣Site of Struggle |
| SOS➣Students of Sociology (various schools) |
| SOS➣Survivor Outreach Services (US Army) |
| SOS➣Sdruzeni Obrany Spotrebitelu (Czech: Consumers Defense Association) |
| SOS➣Same Old Song |
| SOS➣Son of Sardar (Bollywood comedy) |
| SOS➣Share Our Strength |
| SOS➣Supplies over Seas (Kentucky) |
| SOS➣So Old School |
| SOS➣Save Outdoor Sculpture |
| SOS➣Some Other Solutions (Canada) |
| SOS➣Survivors of Suicide |
| SOS➣Science of Sustainability |
| SOS➣Snake Oil Salesman |
| SOS➣Slower Older Smarter |
| SOS➣Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome (hepatic injury) |
| SOS➣Son of Sevenless (enzyme involved in the signal transduction pathway) |
| SOS➣Same Old Story |
| SOS➣Scrum of Scrums (software) |
| SOS➣Spørgsmål Og Svar (Danish) |
| SOS➣Safety of Seniors (various locations) |
| SOS➣Second Order System |
| SOS➣Short on Storage |
| SOS➣Switch on Screen |
| SOS➣Sophisticated Operating System |
| SOS➣Shared Object Space |
| SOS➣Security of Systems |
| SOS➣Sco Online Support |
| SOS➣System Overclock Saver |
| SOS➣Street Outreach Services (San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium) |
| SOS➣Start of Significance |
| SOS➣Stressed Out Students |
| SOS➣Support Open Source (project) |
| SOS➣Save Our State (various locations) |
| SOS➣Shoot on Sight (gaming clan) |
| SOS➣Shoot on Sight |
| SOS➣Secular Organizations for Sobriety (Council for Secular Humanism) |
| SOS➣Shout Out Sunday |
| SOS➣South Okanagan-Similkameen (Canada) |
| SOS➣Standard Output Sensitivity (photography) |
| SOS➣Service Opportunities for Students |
| SOS➣Structural Operational Semantics (computer science) |
| SOS➣Secure Overlay Services (computer architecture) |
| SOS➣Scope of Services |
| SOS➣Sea of Solutions (Vlaardingen, Netherlands) |
| SOS➣Sygate Online Services |
| SOS➣Solid Oak Software |
| SOS➣Save Our Service (Scotland, UK) |
| SOS➣Summer of Sam (movie) |
| SOS➣Source Of Supply |
| SOS➣Sack of Stuff (polite form) |
| SOS➣Service Oriented Security (software) |
| SOS➣Same Old Stuff (polite form) |
| SOS➣Sticks or Stones (anti-bully publication) |
| SOS➣Swedish Obese Subjects (study) |
| SOS➣Science of Spirituality |
| SOS➣Skeletons of Society (band) |
| SOS➣Survival on Snow |
| SOS➣Significant Other Support (various organizations) |
| SOS➣Sending Out Signals (Garrison album) |
| SOS➣Summer of Service |
| SOS➣Services Of Supply (WWII) |
| SOS➣Source of Strength |
| SOS➣Sheamus O'Shaunessy (professional wrestler) |
| SOS➣Squadron Officer School (USAF) |
| SOS➣Sea of Shoes (blog) |
| SOS➣Save Our Wild Salmon |
| SOS➣Shoe Outlet Store |
| SOS➣Supporting Our Soldiers |
| SOS➣Stuck On Stupid |
| SOS➣Save Our School |
| SOS➣Software Operating System |
| SOS➣Society of Singers |
| SOS➣Southern Oxidants Study (North Carolina State University) |
| SOS➣Sex on Stage (band) |
| SOS➣Samaritans of Singapore |
| SOS➣System-of-System |
| SOS➣Services Operations Support (Presilient) |
| SOS➣Service on Site |
| SOS➣Science of Survival |
| SOS➣Swamp of Sorrows (gaming, World of Warcraft) |
| SOS➣Save Our Saluda (environmental protection group; Marietta, SC) |
| SOS➣Save Our Situation |
| SOS➣Shot on Sight (band) |
| SOS➣Sign of Strength (Wyckoff trading theory) |
| SOS➣Service over Self |
| SOS➣Save Our Sons |
| SOS➣Scheduled Oil Sampling (Caterpillar Inc.) |
| SOS➣Save Our Sailors (Sailor Moon anime) |
| SOS➣Sophisticated Operating System (Apple /// OS) |
| SOS➣System Operations Support |
| SOS➣Snowboard Outreach Society (Avon, Colorado, USA) |
| SOS➣Stop OverSpending |
| SOS➣Save Our Society |
| SOS➣Share Operating System |
| SOS➣Statement Of Service |
| SOS➣Save Our Species |
| SOS➣Safeguard Old State (Pennsylvania State University) |
| SOS➣Spawn of Satan |
| SOS➣Save Our Skies |
| SOS➣Switch off Something (government initiative; UK) |
| SOS➣Sales Order System (software) |
| SOS➣Second Order Statistics |
| SOS➣Society of Stranders (shag/beach dancing group; Grand Strand, SC) |
| SOS➣Same 'ol Situation |
| SOS➣Strategic Outsourcing Solutions (various locations) |
| SOS➣Strawberry on the Shortcake |
| SOS➣Send Our Ships |
| SOS➣Station Ornithologique Suisse (French: Swiss Ornithological Station) |
| SOS➣Stallion Oilfield Services (various locations) |
| SOS➣Students for An Orwellian Society |
| SOS➣Save Our Sausages |
| SOS➣Son of Satan |
| SOS➣Sons of Satan |
| SOS➣Stamp Out Smoking |
| SOS➣Symbian Operating System |
| SOS➣Sons of Silence (Motorcycle Club) |
| SOS➣Science of Speed |
| SOS➣Self-Organized System |
| SOS➣Same Old Situation (Mötley Crüe song) |
| SOS➣Save Our Sonics (organization that tried to keep the Seattle Supersonics from leaving town) |
| SOS➣Special Operations School |
| SOS➣Shakespeare Oxford Society (Yorktown Heights, NY) |
| SOS➣Someone Stranded |
| SOS➣Save Our Shows (TV Guide) |
| SOS➣Safeguard Organic Standards |
| SOS➣Sultan Of Swat (Babe Ruth) |
| SOS➣Speed Of Service |
| SOS➣Struck Off Strength |
| SOS➣Save Our Stawberries |
| SOS➣Scope of Supply |
| SOS➣Storm of Swords (George RR Martin book) |
| SOS➣Son of Stopgap |
| SOS➣Sun or Shade (Dublin, OH) |
| SOS➣Spares Optimization System (maintenance) |
| SOS➣Save Our Skins (Cincinnati, OH) |
| SOS➣Send Out Succor (distress call, common but incorrect) |
| SOS➣Service Oriented Software |
| SOS➣Skydivers Over Sixty (social club) |
| SOS➣Save Our Songbirds |
| SOS➣Shoot on Site |
| SOS➣Survival Optics Sunglasses |
| SOS➣Support Operating System |
| SOS➣Swedish Optical Society (est. 1991) |
| SOS➣Supervisor of Shipbuilding |
| SOS➣Switch on Shropshire (UK) |
| SOS➣Si Opus Sit (Latin: If Necessary; a prescription indication usually implies the drug is to be administered only once) |
| SOS➣Solution Oriented Services (India) |
| SOS➣Sick of School |
| SOS➣Self Opening Square (paper bag) |
| SOS➣Secure Ordering System |
| SOS➣Statement of Sensitivity |
| SOS➣Service Optimization Solutions (software) |
| SOS➣Some One Special (chat) |
| SOS➣Sons of Solomon |
| SOS➣Syndicated Office Systems |
| SOS➣Save Our Saucepans |
| SOS➣Sons of Samoa (gang) |
| SOS➣Save Our School, Share Our Shores (Ontonagon County, MI) |
| SOS➣Symbolic Operating System |
| SOS➣Scope of Studies |
| SOS➣Sum-Of-Sinusoids |
| SOS➣Sharpening Our Souls (Old River Baptist Church) |
| SOS➣State Operated Schools |
| SOS➣Sub Ocean Safety (medical rescue of underwater divers) |
| SOS➣Source Off-Site |
| SOS➣Student Online Support |
| SOS➣Salsa on Sundays |
| SOS➣Supply Our Students (Sioux Falls, SD) |
| SOS➣Smör Ost Och Sill (Butter, Cheese and Herring) |
| SOS➣Song of Solomon/Song of Songs |
| SOS➣Stragglers Orienteering Society (UK) |
| SOS➣Stuff On a Shingle (polite form; common military chow hall meal; meat/cream sauce served on toast) |
| SOS➣Sword of Skardsen (Neopets) |
| SOS➣Standard Overnight Service (shipping) |
| SOS➣Security Overseas Seminar |
| SOS➣Spectrally Optimized Smart (Camera) |
| SOS➣Someone Over Shoulder (chat) |
| SOS➣Skits Outreach Services (theatre troupe) |
| SOS➣System Operation Status (Sprint) |
| SOS➣Save Our Shoes (Santa Cruz, CA) |
| SOS➣Son of Superman |
| SOS➣Solar Optical Telescope |
| SOS➣Simple Office Solutions (Santa Rosa, CA) |
| SOS➣Slightly Off-Specification (analog-digital interface failure) |
| SOS➣Standing Order Service |
| SOS➣Soap on Steel (SOS Pads) |
| SOS➣Student Organization Support |
| SOS➣Sons Of Stalin (Quake gaming clan) |
| SOS➣Ski or Snowboard Club (UC Davis) |
| SOS➣Save Our Shoreline, Inc. (Michigan) |
| SOS➣Student Ombuds Service |
| SOS➣Skagway Outlet Store |
| SOS➣Senior Operations Specialist |
| SOS➣Sarcoidosis Online Sites |
| SOS➣Surveillance of Space |
| SOS➣Send Out Someone |
| SOS➣Student Outcome Survey |
| SOS➣Sacramento Orchid Society (California) |
| SOS➣Society for Ecological Sensibility |
| SOS➣Standards & Open Systems |
| SOS➣Secure Object Store (Lotus Notes database system) |
| SOS➣Save Our Survivors |
| SOS➣Send Out Service |
| SOS➣Sumatra Orangutan Society |
| SOS➣Speech Option Selection |
| SOS➣Stars Organisation for Spastics |
| SOS➣Save Often Stupid |
| SOS➣Save Our Savannah |
| SOS➣Strategic Options Study (India) |
| SOS➣Smash on Site |
| SOS➣Sarasota Orchid Society (Florida) |
| SOS➣Slop on a Shingle (chipped beef on toast; polite form) |
| SOS➣Story of Sadness (song) |
| SOS➣Space Operations Simulator |
| SOS➣Scoot Over Some |
| SOS➣Surveillance Operating System (Hekimian) |
| SOS➣Staff of Shielding (Everquest) |
| SOS➣Society of Separationists, Inc. |
| SOS➣Sea of Slime (publication) |
| SOS➣Special Order Sale |
| SOS➣Southern Ohio Sanitation, LLC |
| SOS➣Strategic Operating System |
| SOS➣Start Out/Off Slow (driver's education) |
| SOS➣Soldiers of Satin (gaming clan) |
| SOS➣Strahl-On-Strahl |
| SOS➣Speed of the Shissar (Everquest) |
| SOS➣Singapore Organisation of Seaman |
| SOS➣Seek Our Savior |
| SOS➣Son of Samurai (band) |
| SOS➣Spirit of Selling GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) |
| SOS➣Save Our Sandwiches |
| SOS➣Sensitizing Operation Sequence |
| SOS➣Save Our Submarine |
| SOS➣Sink or Swing (band) |
| SOS➣Subscriber and Operator Services |
| SOS➣Signals Of Silence (band) |
| SOS➣Sandia Office Supply |
| SOS➣System Operational Specification |
| SOS➣Special Operator Service Traffic |
| SOS➣Split Option Soldier |
| SOS➣Supportability Online System |
| SOS➣Significant Other Strike |
| SOS➣SPRINT Operations Shelter |
| SOS➣Sprint Office Support (Sprint) |
| SOS➣Straight Off da Street |
| SOS➣Servants of Shade (Halo gaming clan) |
| SOS➣Share of Shelf |
| SOS➣Son of Stick (fishing) |
| SOS➣Status of Studies (US FEMA) |
| SOS➣Stop Outsourcing Safety |
| SOS➣Strategic Office Support |
| SOS➣Spirit of Silverdale (Silverdale, WA) |
| SOS➣Start of Shipments |
| SOS➣Save or Sacrifice (bridge game) |
| SOS➣Supplementary Ophthalmic Service |
| SOS➣Suck Our Sacks |
| SOS➣Situation Objective Strategy |
| SOS➣Sex on Sight |
| SOS➣Semantics, Opinion and Sentiment in Text (summer school) |
| SOS➣Stretch or Starve |
SOS - an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code