Hodad – a person who hangs around the beach and does not surf Hit the lip – when a surfer turns up their surfboard to hit the falling lip of the wave, allowing the surfboard to be smashed down Helicopter– a surf move where the surfer spins their surfboard around from its nose Heavy – big, awesome waves that are sometimes dangerous Header – to fall off a surfboard from the front, head first Hang Ten – riding a surfboard with both feet placed on the nose of the board and your toes hanging over the nose
Hang Loose – the salutation that accompanies the sign of Shaka Hang Five – riding a surfboard with one foot placed on the nose of the board and five toes hanging over the nose Hang Eleven – used to describe a male surfer who rides naked Grubbing – falling off the surfboard while surfing Grom – a young and inexperienced surfer also known as a grommet It may be that the word has not entered general use among people who aren’t familiar with either Bob Marley’s music or with Jamaican slang.Greenroom or Inside The Greenroom– the inside of a barrel In 1971, Bob Marley and the Wailers composed a song called “ Kaya” on the album Soul Revolution, which featured the chorus: “Got to have kaya now / For the rain is falling.” In 1978, they released the album Kaya, which included a reworked version of the track from Soul Revolution, which further popularized the term kaya among his fans into the 1980s.Īmong non-Caribbean English speakers, however, kaya seems to be less common than other slang words for marijuana. Many English speakers living outside the Caribbean first heard the word kaya from Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley, who often discussed marijuana use in his work. According to Green’s Dictionary of Slang, the etymology of kaya is unknown, but it seems to have a relationship with the Caribbean English word kayakiit, which is a form of medicinal herb. Kaya is Jamaican slang, in use since at least the 1970s.
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