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spod n.
[UK] 1. A lower form of life found on [talker system]s and [MUD]s. The spod has few friends in [RL] and uses talkers instead, finding communication easier and preferable over the 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 major irritant to sysadmins, clogging up lines in order to reach new MUDs, following passed-on instructions on how to sneak his way onto Internet ("Wow! It's in America!") and complaining when he is not allowed to use busy routes. A true spod will start any conversation with "Are you male or female?" (and follow it up with "Got any good numbers/IDs/passwords?") and will not talk to someone physically present in the same terminal room until they log onto the same machine that he is using and enter talk mode. Compare [newbie], [tourist], [weenie], [twink], [terminal junkie], [warez d00dz]. 2. A [backronym] for "Sole Purpose, Obtain a Degree"; according to some self-described spods, this term is used by indifferent students to condemn their harder-working fellows. Compare the defiant adoption of the term `geek' in the mid-1990s by people who would previously have been stigmatized by it (see [computer geek]). 3. [obs.] An ordinary person; a [random]. This is the meaning with which the term was coined, but the inventor informs us he has himself accepted sense 1.