1. Surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
   "The golf course maintained a lush, green sod";
   - turf, sward, greensward
    
2. [informal] An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
   "the poor sod couldn't even buy a drink";
   - man, adult male, geezer [Brit, informal], guy [informal], cat [N. Amer, informal], hombre [N. Amer, informal], bozo [N. Amer, informal], chappie [Brit, informal]
    
3. [Brit, informal] A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
   "The old sod refused to help his neighbours";
   - rotter [Brit, informal], dirty dog [informal], rat [informal], skunk [informal], stinker [informal], stinkpot [N. Amer, informal], bum [N. Amer, informal], crumb [N. Amer, informal], lowlife [informal], so-and-so [informal], git [Brit, informal], scumbag [informal], swine [informal], scuzz [N. Amer, informal], sleazeball [informal], scuzzbucket [N. Amer, informal], sleazebag [informal], scuzzball [N. Amer, informal], sleazebucket [informal], slimebag [informal], slimeball [informal], toad [informal], dirtbag [US, informal], toerag [Brit, informal], scuzzbag [N. Amer, informal], ratbag [Brit, informal]

1. Cover with sod
   "The landscapers sodded the entire front lawn"

1. Exclamation of annoyance
   "sod ...They won't stop me from having what I want"";
   - blast, bother [Brit], botheration, bummer [informal], curses, dang [N. Amer, informal], damn, damnation, dammit [informal], damn it [informal], darn [informal], dash [Brit, informal], deuce [informal], durn [US, dialect], drat [informal], hang [informal], sugar [informal], tarnation [N. Amer, informal], shoot [N. Amer, informal]

1. An enzyme that catalyses the conversion of superoxide into hydrogen peroxide and oxygen
   "oxygen free radicals are normally removed in our bodies by the SOD enzymes";
   - superoxide dismutase

Derived forms: sods, sodding, sodded

Type of: adult, cover, disagreeable person, enzyme, ground, grownup, land, male, male person, soil, unpleasant person

Encyclopedia: Sod, WV