Surf Terminology
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Surfing (particularly in Southern California) has its own slang, which has comingled with Valleyspeak. Words like "dude", "tubular", "radical", and "gnarly" are associated with both. One of the primary terms used by surfers around the world is the word "stoked". This refers to a mixed feeling of anxiety and happiness towards the waves breaking.
Surfers have often been associated with being slackers or 'beach bums' (with women being known as 'beach bunnies').
The shaka sign, associated with Hawaii, origins unknown, is a common greeting in surfer culture.
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“There was so much of the Indian accent resounding through his English, so much of the “bow-arrow tang” as my neighbor calls it.... It was a wild and refreshing sound, like that of the wind among the pines, or the booming of the surf on the shore.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)