noun

• (slang, uncountable) Sociology or social science.
• (slang, countable) Upper class youth.
  "We get jumped by the Socs. I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids."

noun

• (UK, university slang) A society (circle, club, interest group).
  "Are you part of any socs this year?"

noun

• (UK, law, historical) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.
  "As proprietors of the soc, the lords claimed a great number of fees and perquisites, payable by all classes of people, whether free or servile, who negotiated any affairs within the soc, and which no doubt formed in themselves a considerable source of revenue."
• (UK, obsolete) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.

noun

• (electronics) Initialism of system on a chip.
• (military) Initialism of special operations command.
• (programming) Initialism of separation of concerns.
• (broadcasting) Initialism of standard outcue.