SOB

SOB is a three-letter abbreviation that can reference:

• son of a bitch, a euphemism and a general term of abuse
• sexually oriented business
• share of business
• start of business day
• South of the Border With Pedro.
• signed off by, when submitting a patch to the Linux kernel
• short of breath; see dyspnea
• small of back, a type of holster/carry method where the weapon is positioned horizontally at the middle of the back with the grip either pointing straight up or straight down
• Styles of Beyond, an underground hip hop band
• S.O.B. (1981 film), a 1981 film written and directed by Blake Edwards
• S.O.B., a Japanese hardcore punk and grindcore band
• The Society of Orpheus & Bacchus, the a cappella singing group from Yale University
• The Super Oralloy Bomb, the largest pure fission bomb ever detonated, which had a yield of 500 kilotons
• The Soldiers of Barrabas, a series of paperback novels written by Jack Hild
• Sons Of Batman, fictional mutants following Batman in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
• senate office building
• S.O.B.- Storm of Bullets- A unofficial Gunster:Rain of Bullets Forum open to the public. Because of the demise of the Ijji version of Gunster, this forum is also now open to a variety of games, including Soldier Front, Gunz, and other First-Person Shooters and martial arts games.
• New York State Route 135, commonly referred to as the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway or the SOB.
• SoB Seventeen or Bust a mathematical prime number related project
• Scars On Broadway - A System of a Down Side Project
• Sons of Butcher - A Canadian Rock band.

Sob is also an English word defined by Websters as a "Convulsive gasp made while weeping".