Meaning

(slang) Abbreviation of various terms beginning "social"; used especially in compound terms..

Definitions by Sense

1. (slang) Abbreviation of various terms beginning "social"; used especially in compound terms.
2. (Scotland, slang) A co-op.

Example Sentences

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sosh.

In Hoover's second year there rose a prophet of the "barbs" or non-fraternity men whose appropriate name was Zion. His constant tilting against things as they are gave him the nickname of "Sosh" short for Socialist.

This, more than anything else, was the true sign of a high school social climber known as the “sosh.” The teeth-baring sosh (long o) began as a glimmer in the eye.

Both had taught at different times in the Military Academy's Social Sciences Department […] “Sosh,” as the academic department was called […]

In the face of Reid's prominent ‘anti-Sosh’ campaign (in reality an attempt to wedge Deakin's supporters), Labor held its ground in the 1906 election […]

Weddings were celebrated among the Auld Lichts by showers of ha'pence, .... Willie Todd, the best man, ... slipped through the back window ... and making a bolt for it to the "'Sosh," was back in a moment with a handful of small change. Barrie's usage is annotated in Hammerton, cited below.

An' as I thocht that a wee hair o' pepper would help to gie the gruel a gude flavour, I opened ane o' the wee bits o' pockies that had been brocht by Marget on the Saturday frae the Sosh an' put in a grain o' its contents.

Maggie, rin you to the sosh for a peck o' saut.

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Use sosh when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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