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Aggro: uptight, aggressive
Betty: girl
Charger: fearless surfer who goes for big waves
Epic: great, huge (epic waves)
Grommet/gremmie: young or beginning surfer
Kook: reckless beginner with wanton disregard for safety of other surfers
Ripper/shredder: good surfer
Snake: verb — to catch a wave when another person already is riding it; noun — surfer who snakes
Sponger: boogie-boarder
Square: conservative surfer
Stoked: elated feeling resulting from good waves
Tube: tube-shape wave
Getting tubed: surfing inside a tube-shape wave
Wanna-be: inexperienced surfers or nonsurfers more into surf fashion than surfing
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Day-glo: bright colors of wet suits commonly worn by wanna-be’s