sosh meed

English

Alternative forms

• sosh meeds, sosh med, sosh meds

Etymology

Clipping of social media.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /soʊʃ mid/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /səʊʃ mid/

Noun

sosh meed (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Social media.
   • [2018 August 20, Mike Lane, “Flying from Auckland to Bangalore aboard Singapore Airlines”, in The New Zealand Herald‎^[1], Auckland: NZME, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-22:

     Also, I can report that inflight Wi-Fi is a revolution! You can sosh med and email galore.

     Used as a verb.]

   • 2018 October 17, Phoebe Robinson, “Phoebe Robinson's 9 Tips on How to Be Single That Don't Actually Suck”, in Harper's Bazaar‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Hearst Magazine Media, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-15:

     Then there are some folks whom I recently discovered exist and their hotness has made me sign up for a lifetime subscription to Fap Magazine: peeps like The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun (never seen the show, but saw pics of him on sosh meeds) and country singer Luke Bryan (never listened to his music, but I watched the American Idol reboot because I'm a grandma at heart).

   • 2019 March 26, Syd Robinson, “I Found Mandy From "The Miley And Mandy Show" And This Is What She's Up To”, in BuzzFeed‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-01-30:

     Well, with Miley posting all of these throwback pics on sosh meeds (social media,) I have to wonder...

   • 2020 May 29, “Bachelorette”, in Harley Quinn, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Eris (Jameela Jamil):

     Oh, can you toast again for the camera? I want to post it to our sosh meed.

   • 2022, Elisa Albert, Human Blues: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Avid Reader Press, →ISBN, page 148:

     She'd had a swank job as an event planner at a talent agency 'til the girls were born; now she was starting a company whose mission was impossible to parse but had something to do with disseminating a precise and costly bohemian-chic home décor aesthetic on sosh meed.

   • 2023, Tara Schuster, Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     AND OH GOD! We haven't even talked about the sosh med yet! The rise and ubiquity of social media has made it increasingly difficult to set boundaries between our work selves and our personal selves.

   • 2023 April 12, Sophie van Soest, “What Is 'Spotify Pie' And How Do I Get A Slice? My Guilty Pleasure Songs Are Quaking”, in The Edge‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-08-01:

     If you're a fan of Spotify Wrapped, the annual recap of music-listening habits that dominates everyone's sosh meds for a week, then you're in for a treat.