hodad

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#1·5h ago

(surfing, slang, derogatory) Someone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers.

Origin: Originally Californian surfer slang from the 1960s. Perhaps from the greeting Ho! Dad, though no evidence for this derivation is known. The suggestion that it derives from Western Hemisphere similarly lacks evidence; also the vowel change from -did to -dad is unexplained. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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