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SST

American  
  1. supersonic transport.


SST British  

abbreviation

  1. supersonic transport

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

SST Cultural  
  1. A commercial aircraft that flies faster than the speed of sound; SST stands for s uper s onic t ransport. The Concorde, developed by the British and French, is an example of an SST.


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They originally formed in 1984 and steadily moved to the forefront of underground indie rock scene on labels like Sub Pop and SST while touring the country in a red Chevy van.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025

Jim Ruland is the author of “Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall of SST Records” and publishes a Substack about books, music and books about music called “Message from the Underground.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2025

Times bestselling author of “Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall of SST Records” and of the novel “Make It Stop.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

His death, in a nursing home, was announced in a Facebook post by Joe Carducci, a former co-owner of SST Records, the iconoclastic Hermosa Beach, Calif., label where Mr. Lockett made his name.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023

“Everything got recorded way, way, way too hot and it was distorted as hell,” Spot told Jim Ruland, the author of “Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records.”

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023

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