Sod (disambiguation)

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Sod can refer to:

• Sod, another word for turf, or a piece of turf.
• Sod in British English is a mildly offensive term for a person, derived from "sodomite" but rarely nowadays used with this meaning. It has many uses, but particularly implies idleness ("lazy sod") or dirtiness. Such mild insults are used affectionately between friends ("how are you, you old sod?"). It can be used as many different parts of speech — e.g. "sod off!", "sodding bastard". "Sod it", "sod this for a lark", or "sod this for a game of soldiers" is often used when deciding something is not worth doing.
• Sod, West Virginia

SOD or S.O.D. can be an abbrevation for:

• Screen of Death
• Secretary of Defense
• Septo-optic dysplasia, a congenital malformation syndrome of the optic nerve
• Soap Opera Digest
• the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
• Soft On Demand, a Japanese porn company
• Soul of the Duelist, a pack in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game
• Storage on Demand
• Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction, a disorder of the muscle around the bile duct orifice into the duodenum
• Stormtroopers of Death, a thrash/crossover metal music band
• Standing Order for Data
• Sleep of Death, describes an error where smartphones do not reactivate
• Statement of Direction (business)
• SteelerOfDeVille, a Pittsburgh Steelers fan from Louisville, KY
• Sudden Oak Death, a plant disease
• Superoxide dismutase, a group of enzymes
• Separation of duties (or Segregation of Duties), a concept in fraud prevention.

[edit] See also

• Sod's Law