sodcasting

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noun

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

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounsodcasting (uncountable)
  1. UKneologismslanguncountablePlaying music on a mobile phone or other portable device in public, without regard for those around one.

    With mobile phones in many a teenager's pocket, the rise of sodcasting - best described as playing music through a phone in public - has created a noisy problem for a lot of commuters.

    2011 June 11, Alex Hudson, “Why do people play music in public through a phone?”, in BBC News
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    When times are good, a community can just about cope: lack of empathy leads to nothing worse than the rudeness of sodcasting on buses, the discharging of one’s nostrils on to a pavement, the casual dropping of a takeaway food container into the doorway of someone else’s flat.

    2011 December 9, Graeme Archer, “Empathy has fled the inner city, and it’s time for me to follow”, in The Telegraph

    Take, for example, the following passage from Dan Hancox's blog post about sodcasting and note in particular how Hancox names a variety of technologies — from filesharing software limewire to mobile phones—and the way their traces seem to issue from the crunchy timbres and impoverished (bass) frequencies of the music itself, qualities which have come to periodize these recordings for the author and his cohorts.

    2014, Wayne Marshall, “Treble Culture”, in The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 61

    Synonyms: headphone dodging, loudcasting, blasturbating, blasturbation

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of sodcast

Synonyms & antonyms

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

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APA

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

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

Chicago

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

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