sosh

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, slang)Abbreviation of various terms beginning "social"; used especially in compound terms.

   “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 […]”

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:sosh.”

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

   “He handed her a paper with Erik Last's DOB and Visa card number. "This guy wouldn't give me his sosh." His social security number.”

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

   ““I mean he's crazy about me . Whoa - h - h !” She lowed like a cow in heat . “ “How do you know ?” “Well , in sosh class — you know , social studies —” Mr . Kurland goes , “Today we're having a surprise QQ .””

   “She'd let him think it was over for a while, but I knew she'd be on him again at noon, or spreading the word in the back of Social Studies; Mrs. Lehmann, the Sosh teacher, couldn't see the back of the room very well.”

4. (Scotland, slang)A co-op.

   “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.”

   “In many Scottish villages, the Co-operative Store is known as the “Sosh[.]””