Maritime distress call (3)

I believe the answer is:

sos

(Other definitions for sos that I've seen before include "Help with dots and dashes" , "plea" , "Morse Code for help" , "Coded distress signal" , "request for aid" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.

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