Surfing Metaphors
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-Build a house.
-Top turn wrap.
-Hop on the sled and reset.
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-check turn
-doggy door
-shampoo
-worked
and so forth...
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-snake
-drop wallet
-down-time (hate that one)
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-Pit
-Rooster tail
-back door
-out the back
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-flailing kick-out
-burnt
-off the top/bottom
-washing machined
-caught inside
(sounds like my last surf)
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-lago
-sheep stations
-victory at sea
-glassy/oily
-ruffled
-morning sickness
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-sick
-filth
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Dogshit on the carpet
Beer o’clock
It’s nice to just get wet
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So entrenched in the language that we forget - barrel and tube.
Tunnel
Funnel
A-frame
Log
Shoulder, shoulder hopper
Wall
Burger
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Egg
Blowin
Rubberneck(er)
pump
pumping
going off
gone off
sick
bomb
bombie
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-shoulder hopper
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'quasimodo'
'pet the cat'
'coffin - cheater'
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Late drop
Pull in
Belt the fuck out of it
Go cunt
I didn’t see ya
Thought you were going left / right
I fucken LIVE here
Where are you from , mate ?
If you don’t go you’re walking home
Gronk
Hung up
Rinsed
Smoked
Smoker
Threaded
Freight train
Heaving
Greedy end section
Back him up
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Description of surf from good to bad:
Epic
Mental
Off the Richter
Pumping
Going off
Sick
Good
Pretty good
OK
Couple
Alright
Worth a paddle
Nice in
Pretty av
Lame
Gutless
Shit
Flat
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Couple that have always annoyed the shit outa me; Fun,and Average. ..."Aw yeh...just surfed 8foot Ours,it was fun"......" and then the Cold front will move through,creating Average conditions" wtf? it won't be average it will be unsurfabe Shit
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Smoker
Chip-in
Teepee
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-burger
-ankle snapper
edit- shoulda read back, Lostdoggy got in before me on a couple.
-twelve o'clock
-beyond vert
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you missed it
where were an hour ago..it was pumping
you blew it
kooks
g banger
thought you were going straight
out the back
cowabunga dudes....no
yours
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Shit splitters
Men in grey suits
Poo stance
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Sub optimal
Flogged
Sand gropers
Judo squat
There's probably some sort of regional dialect for surfers around Australia, would have been more distinct pre internet. Someone should map it in time and space, look at overlaps etc.
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Vision.........as in: 'I pulled into this loooong tube and got some serious vision before it closed out'
Travel time: see 'vision'
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Out the back tapping kegs for the dawny when a bomb came through. Swingin late I fell from the sky avoiding the guillotine by a bees dick. Moon tubed into the green room, and for a moment I was Ernie Shackleton, until I met Auntie Coral at chirnside park & got cheese grated on the dry dock.
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Goat Boat
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Bushpig.
Spit the winkle.
Seppo.
Clubbie.
Clubbie wanker.
Clubbed.
Had to lung five to get out there.
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Taking Gas
Down the mine
Almond eye
Shocker
Corduroy
Rubber necks
On the dome!
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Clean as
Shacked
Hang time
Wipe out
Section
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"Spotted a lobster"
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dick dragger
sweeper
jelly legs or shoulders
sucking dry
cord to the horizon
lobster dive
section connector
suck rock
inside
bombie
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-gut rash
-nipple rash
-rashie
-fin gash
-hash cone
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Dick Cheese
A name given to a particularly aggro Brazilian at Pasta Point back in 2001 by the mostly Australian contingent staying on the island. Poor fucker didn't understand a word of English which made for some good laughs.
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Surfer nicknames :
Sea Hag
Punching Bag
Hair Quake
Dugong
The surfer formerly known as Love Symbol
Mr Mingle
Criminal
Animal
Half Ball
Prince of the surf
Jelly Belly
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The topic is surfing metaphors, ya kooks!
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Surgeons table
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Are you the bloke who gets upset when everyone is having fun dancing a rumba whilst they’re meant to be doing a foxtrot ?
Loosen your collar , have a drink and just feel the beat, brother.
It often strikes me how creative surfers can be in their use of language, especially when describing surfing. We use so much figurative language without even being aware of it. I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of surfing metaphors. Please feel free to add to the list.