What exactly is an SOB?

Question: What is a sonofabitch, exactly?

Quite often we ask ourselves hard to answer questions, like "What is a sonofabitch?" The only true thing is that a picture is worth a thousand words. In the photo below, the guy on the right is a member of a bomb squad in the middle of deactivating an explosive device. The guy behind him, well... he's a sonofabitch.