sodcast

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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sodcast (third-person singular simple present sodcasts, present participle sodcasting, simple past and past participle sodcasted or sodcast)

  1. (UK, slang, derogatory, neologism) To play music on a mobile phone or other portable device in public, without regard for those around.
    • 2010 January 20, Simon Reynolds, “Simon Reynolds' Notes on the noughties: Grime and dubstep – a noise you could believe in”, in The Guardian[1]:
      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.
    • 2011 June 11, Alex Hudson, “Why do people play music in public through a phone?”, in BBC News[2]:
      Rapper Giggs is said to be the most sodcasted artist, though quantifying this is very difficult.
    • 2014 September 22, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “Six steps to perfect mobile phone etiquette”, in The Guardian[3]:
      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.