Usually means: Cry with loud, convulsive breaths.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word SOB:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. sob: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. SOB, sob: Merriam-Webster
  3. SOB, s.o.b, sob: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. SOB, sob: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. s.o.b, sob: Collins English Dictionary
  6. SOB, sob: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sob, sob: Wordnik
  8. S.O.B, s.o.b, sob: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. SOB, sob: Wiktionary
  10. sob: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. SOB, sob: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sob: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. SOB, s.o.b: Dictionary.com
  14. sob (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. s.o.b, sob: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. S.O.B. (band), S.O.B. (film), S.O.B. (song), SOB, Sob, The Sob: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sob: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sob: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sob: Rhymezone
  20. sob: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sob: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SOB: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. sob: FreeDictionary.org
  24. sob: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. SOB, s.o.b: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. sob: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SOB: Netlingo
  2. sob: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SOB: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. SOB: UK Medical Acronyms
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. SOB: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. SOB: Acronym Finder
  3. SOB: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. sob: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sob, sob: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. S.O.B, S.O.B, S.O.B. (Standard Operating Brocedure), SOB (Slut on Boy): Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sobbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (SOB)

noun:  A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
noun:  (onomatopoeia) sound of sob
verb:  (intransitive) To weep with convulsive gasps.
verb:  (transitive) To say (something) while sobbing.
verb:  To soak.
noun:  (countable, vulgar, slang) Initialism of son of a bitch. [(derogatory or offensive, slang, vulgar, usually referring specifically to a man, chiefly US, Canada) An objectionable, despicable person.]
noun:  (uncountable) Initialism of shortness of breath. [Difficulty in breathing.]
noun:  (aviation, in the plural) Initialism of souls on board.
noun:  (speedrunning) Initialism of sum of best. [(speedrunning) The total combined time of the fastest segments or splits achieved in a speedrun of a video game, representing the theoretical fastest time that a speedrunner could achieve at their current level of skill.]
noun:  (business) Initialism of start of business.
noun:  (business, finance) Initialism of share of business.

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