spod

(spɒd) adja person seen as being boring, unattractive, or excessively studious[C20: origin unknown] ˈspoddy adj

spod

- A studious person who is quite socially inept or dull or a person who pursues an unfashionable, technical, or esoteric interest with obsessive dedication.See also related terms for technical.

spod

(chat)(Great Britain) A lower form of life found on chatsystems and MUDs. The spod has few friends in RL and useschat instead, finding communication easier and preferable overthe net. He has all the negative traits of the computer geek without having any interest in computers per se.Lacking any knowledge of, or interest in, how networks work,and considering his access a God-given right, he is a majorirritant to sysadmins, clogging up lines in order to reachnew MUDs, following passed-on instructions on how to sneakhis way onto Internet ("Wow! It's in America!") andcomplaining when he is not allowed to use busy routes. A truespod will start any conversation with "Are you male orfemale?" (and follow it up with "Got any goodnumbers/IDs/passwords?") and will not talk to someonephysically present in the same terminal room until they logonto the same computer that he is using and enter chat.

Compare newbie, tourist, weenie, twink, terminal junkie, dweeb.

SPOD

Acronym	Definition
SPOD➣Sea Port of Debarkation
SPOD➣Single Point of Data
SPOD➣Spinning Pizza of Death (wait cursor in Mac OS X)
SPOD➣Signature Proof of Delivery (shipping)
SPOD➣Single Point of Definition (computer programming)
SPOD➣Single Point of Development
SPOD➣Stun Palm of Doom (Virtual Fighter game)
SPOD➣Sole Purpose, Obtain a Degree
SPOD➣Spinning Pinwheel of Death (computers)
SPOD➣Suborbital Projects and Operations Directorate (NASA)
SPOD➣Surface Port of Debarkation
SPOD➣Safety Petty Officer of the Day
SPOD➣Single Point of Departure
SPOD➣Sunrise Photo of the Day (blog)
SPOD➣Special Projects and Operations Department
SPOD➣Selective Population of Dressed States
SPOD➣Single Point of Delivery (database operations)