sodcast

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UK/ˈsɒd.kɑːst/UK/ˈsɒd.kæst/

verb

To play music on a mobile phone or other portable device in public, without regard for those around.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

verbsodcast (third-person singular simple present sodcasts, present participle sodcasting, simple past and past participle sodcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) sodcasted)

present singular third person sodcasts · participle present sodcasting · common error unknown tag participle past proscribed sometimes sodcasted · common error unknown tag past proscribed sometimes sodcasted

  1. UKderogatoryneologismslangTo play music on a mobile phone or other portable device in public, without regard for those around.

    Rapper Giggs is said to be the most sodcasted artist, though quantifying this is very difficult.

    2011 June 11, Alex Hudson, “Why do people play music in public through a phone?”, in BBC News
    2 more examples

    Unlike American gangsta rap, which was well-produced and cinematic and had an element of exotic remoteness, grime was always going to remind non-converts, people from outside the scene itself, of hooded youths on the top deck of buses sodcasting tinny music at top volume out of their mobiles.

    2010 January 20, Simon Reynolds, “Simon Reynolds' Notes on the noughties: Grime and dubstep – a noise you could believe in”, in The Guardian

    Thou shalt not sodcast […] There’s a clear positive correlation between how awful music is and the likelihood of it being sodcasted - chewed-and-spat from a phone speaker; landing on your eardrums with all the clarity and soothing of mud splatter.

    2014 September 22, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “Six steps to perfect mobile phone etiquette”, in The Guardian

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Origin

From sod (“contemptible person”) + -cast, from broadcast. Possibly influenced by podcast.

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APA

sodcast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sodcast

MLA

“sodcast.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sodcast. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sodcast,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sodcast.

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