| Babe - a girl |
| Backwash - water heading out to sea from a previous wave |
| Bail - to leave |
| Barrel - to surf in the area inside the breaking wave |
| Betty - a pretty girl |
| Bitchin' - cool |
| Blackball - a flag indicating no hardboards allowed |
| Blown out - a condition that occurs when the wind reduces the waves in size to an unsurfable condition |
| Bro - a friend |
| Bud - a friend |
| Carve - to ride a wave |
| Chill - relax, as in "Chill out" |
| Cool - we all know what this means |
| Crash and Burn - strike out with a girl |
| Closed Out - a wave that provides breaks simultaneously along its length, providing very little in action |
| Coin - money, cash |
| Churn - to get tumbled by the wave |
| Ding - a dent in a surfboard, also to dent |
| Drop in - to cut in front of another surfer while riding a wave |
| Duck dive - to push your board into the water to dive under the whitewash |
| Dude - your friend, another man |
| El Rollo - a body board manuever, basically an aquatic barrell roll |
| Five - O - a cop, from the TV program "Hawaii Five-O" |
| Gnarlly - something dangerous, usally a wave |
| Going off - great waves |
| Green Room - see barrell |
| Grinds - food |
| Grommet - young surfer |
| Hang Ten - to surf with one's toes hanging over the front edge of the board |
| Hard body - a pretty girl |
| HB - Huntington Beach, also known as Surf City |
| Hollie - a person from inland, usually someone unable to surf, but who thinks they can |
| Hottie - a pretty girl |
| Hurl - to throw up |
| Jake - cool |
| Juicin' - cool |
| Killer - great, as in a "killer ride" |
| Lid - body board |
| Loose - in a good way, singularly or collectively |
| Man - see Dude |
| On - surfs-up, a good set, as in: "oh man it's on!"; - what you'd say about a hard body |
| Over the Top - to get carried over the wave as it crashes, see Churn |
| Pearl - to dive head first into the water, usually accidently |
| Rad - cool |
| Rage - to party hard |
| Ride the Falls - See Over the Top |
| Salt-shake - waves, going-off, usually big storm waves, surfing; - something most need a hottie for |
| Set - a number of waves, as in "Here comes a set" |
| Shoulder Hopper - see Drop In |
| Skeg - a fin on a surfboard |
| Skeg-bait - hollie |
| Skanky - ugly |
| Skip - a girl |
| South swell - waves coming in from the South Pacific usually meaning a good set |
| Spunge - see lid |
| Squirrels - non-locals |
| Stick - surfboard |
| Stoked - happy |
| Stylin' - cool |
| Surf's up - the call all surfers love to hear |
| Swell - waves |
| Tight- in a good way, collectively, or about an object Tooled - thrashed |
| Totally - yes |
| Thrashed - beat up, worn |
| Troll - ugly woman or man |
| Trolling - looking for babes, day or night |
| Tube - see Barrell |
| Valley - a person from the San Fernando Valley, usually said with a sneer |
| Whitewash - the remnants of a wave that has broken. |
| Wipe Out - to crash or fall while surfing |
| Worked - see tooled |