| BABE | A girl who surfs. |
| BABANEES | Sexy |
| BABELINI | Girl. |
| BACKSIDE | Turns or rotations in the direction your toes point towards, so that your back is facing the outside of the waves arc. |
| BACKSIDE AIR | Getting up in the air with your back to the wave. |
| BACKWASH | The rush of water coming off the shore against incoming waves. |
| BACKDOOR | Pulling into a tube from behind the peak. |
| BACKHAND | Surfing with your back to the wave. |
| BAD ASS | Really good. |
| BAIL | To escape immediately- to abandon your board with out regards to its future. |
| BAKE | A closeout wave. |
| BALLER | Someone who cries on the beach when they break their board. |
| BALSA | A light, porous wood used throught the 1940's and 50's as a standard material for surfboard manufacture. Balsa grows only in Ecuador and must be imported to the USA; it became popular when laminating techniques allowed surfboard cores to be sealed from contact with water. By the early 1960's it was replaced with polyurethane foam. |
| BAMBOO | A natural substance that can be used as a replacement for fibreglass in the surfboard manufacturing process; eg., Bamboo Surfboards Oz. |
| BAMMERWEE | When something is just okay, not all that good. |
| BANANA HAMMOCK | Another name for sausage sling, nannobenders and nannohammies. Mostly worn by muscle beach kooks, non-surfers, and is taboo in the surfing world to be worn while surfing. |
| BANGIN | Hot |
| BANGBROEK | South African term for being wigged-out or generally scared over surf conditions. |
| BANK | Sandbank on which waves break. |
| BARBIE | Airheaded female, well endowed,usually blond, prissy. |
| BARNIE | To engage a fight with someone. |
| BARNEY | A person who doesn't know what their doing or a beginner. (see KOOK) |
| BARNWALLER | Another name for a kook or barnie with a poor style - "that guy is barnwalling down the line." |
| BA ROOS | Another term for awesome or sick. "That move was ba roos!" |
| BARREL | When the waves comes over your head and covers you, inside the wave and surfing. The inside of a hollow wave (same as tube). |
| BAZZA | Another term for a barrell or tube. |
| BEACH BREAK | 1. Surf breaking on a sandy beach. 2. A type of wave or a place where the wave breaks over a sandbar close to the beach. |
| BEAT | Messed up, wore out or tired. |
| BEAT DOWN | Term used to describe someone who has been worked or rag dolled by a wave or had their butt kicked on the beach for snaking someone once too often. |
| BEATER | Cheap trans found at beaches usualy passed or sold from surfer to surfer sometimes found at surf shops like on Hawaii |
| BEACH BUM | Someone who basicly lives at the beach. |
| BEACH BUNNY | 1. A chick who watches surfers and pretends they can surf. 2. Hot, tan girl on the beach. |
| BEACHOUSE | House where an endless number of surfboards are found,the backyard is the beach (where the real boarders hang). |
| BEEF | A problem with someone or something. |
| BEEN HAD | When someone breaks into your car while you're surfing and steals you wallet. (see BUMMER) |
| BENNY | Someone who comes to your beach that isnt from around there. |
| BETTY | A girl that surfs. |
| BIFFED IT | To fall |
| BIG KAHUNA | The best dude on the beach. |
| BIG MAMMA | A big wave or object. |
| BITCHEN | 1. Cool awsome; that wave's bitchen(that wave's awsome). 2. totally sick and awsome |
| BITER | Someone who copies (bites) off everything you do -aka- annoying ass people. |
| BLACK BALL | A sign that says no surfing, wich sucks because that means it's dangarous meaning aaawsome. |
| BLAH-MALAH | Girl who has taken a board to the face and cant talk right. |
| BLANK | Block of foam from which a custom surfboard is made. |
| BLASTED | Wiping out. |
| BLISS | When you're about to get cranked by a big wave but don't really care 'cause you're watching that blonde girl who just caught the wave instead. |
| BLOWN OUT | Term for when good surf becomes choppy resulting from strong winds. |
| BODACIOUS | Very awsome. |
| BOGGED | To have your board stuck on an object. |
| BOGLIUS | (BO-GLEE-US) Another term like cool and awsome. |
| BOGUS | Wrong - Lame. |
| BOMB | Larger than normal set wave. |
| BOMBORA | A deep water, offshore reef break. |
| BONER STYLE | A surfer who has a totally stiff style and doesent move around alot. |
| BONSNAGLE | Ugly dude with a yuckbabe walking with him. |
| BONUS! | Said when someone does something awsome in addition to something normal. |
| BOOGER | Same as a sponger or boogie boarder. |
| BOOGIE BOARD | A soft foam board ridden on the belly by those who can't or won't stand up, generally hated by all surfers as they usually get in the road, also known as bodyboard. |
| BOOTYLICIOUS | A chick who has a very large ass. |
| BORD | Bro, Dude, Man - Commonly used in San Juan, La Union in The Philippines. |
| BOSS | Cool, awesome. |
| BOTSFORD | A short fat zaboob |
| BOTTOM | The lowest point of a wave a surfer can ride on. |
| BOTTOM TURN | A turn at the bottom of the wave face. Taking off on a steep drop (wave) at or near the bottom of the wave it's a must situation to make the bottom turn either right or left to establish speed and direction and...yehaww! |
| BOUY | Someone who acts like they surf but really just sits on the board acting like they're waiting for wave. |
| BOWLED | Being completly covered by the lip of the wave with only one way out. |
| BOX | Abreviated term used to refer to a surfboard fin box. |
| BRA | Bro |
| BRAH | Hawaiian talk for brother or friend. |
| BRAINFREEZE | Describes what you feel in the cranium and sinus cavity immediately after the first duck-dive when paddling out in COLD water. |
| BEACH-BREAK | The act of being dumped straight onto the beach by the sloppy shore break that is the natural habitat of the crap surfer. It was once believed that these kinds of waves only existed in cartoons but I discovered the truth after landing on my head in Polzeath circa 1992. |
| BREAKER | The breaker is not so much a physical thing as in a breaking wave, it's more of an existential thing, it's the last wave that you attempt before you are washed ignominiously back to shore with your dignity in tatters. |
| BREW | Beer. "Yo! Buy me a brew, brah." |
| BRO | A buddy or friend. |
| BRODAD | Someone you dont really care for. |
| BRODY | Another name for bro or dude. |
| BROHAH | Dude or guy |
| BROSEF | Another term for "bro" .. or "brah" in hawaiian slang. |
| BROSKIE | Bro or broham, a friend. (see BRAH) |
| BRUDDA | Good Friend, bro. |
| BRUTAL | Hardcore conditions, possibility of being worked. |
| BUBBA | Cool dog, nice dog,buddy dog. |
| BUMMER | Huge let down. Upset about something. |
| BUMP | 1. A small swell. 2. When a light wind adds very small waves to the water surface, but the waves are still good. |
| BUM RAP | Something unreasonable that is uncalled for ex: students talk queitly, and teacher writes them up. thats a bum rap. |
| BUMPS | Wax build-up on the boards deck. |
| BUM TRUCKER | Someone who lands on their bum after a gnarly wipeout. |
| BUNNY | Hot Girl. |
| BURNOUT | One of your bitchy friends who complains too much when you all go surfing. |
| BUST | When you bra totally wipes out |
| BUSTED | Caught red handed. |
| BUTT FLOSS | A small G-string Bathing Suit that cute chicks wear to the beach. It looks as if they are wearing nothing at all. |
| BUTT CRUMB | A looser, a wanabe surfer. People who buy surf gear, fake bake (use tanning beads) basically people who wishing they were locals. |
