| CABLE | 1. To fart. 2. To hang a poo. |
| CACTUS | To hit the reef pretty hard, eating sand or a type of injury that leaves you unworthy to surf that entire day. |
| CANVAS COMMANDO | Person surfing with a canvas raft. |
| CALI | I never used this...but guys from Fla. did ...it was a dead give-a-way they were not from San Diego. Cali for California...always wondered how they came up with that. Karl Eberhardt San Diego. |
| CARVE | Symmetrical, fluid turns. |
| CARVING | Powerful high energy surfing. A move in which a surfer moves up and down the face of a wave. Also known as Rippin. |
| CAUGHT IN A FISH NET | When a surfer is just havin a bad day and can't seem to stay on the surf. |
| CAUGHT INSIDE | When a surfer gets caught on the shore side of a breaking wave making it difficult to get out, results in getting tossed around and lots of paddling. |
| CAVE | Barrel, tube etc |
| CAVEFISH | Pale surfer. |
| CHAAA | Another way of saying ahh.. an expression. |
| CHANNEL | 1. Deep water gap between sandbanks or reefs,normally where you paddle out to catch a wave. 2. A design feature on underside of a surfboard. |
| CHARGING | Aggresively riding a huge wave with confidence. |
| CHEATER FIVE | Five toes on the nose - shifting your weight to the back of the board in order to keep trim and speed, squatting down and extending one foot forward. |
| CHECK IT | 1. When you want someones attention or another word for hey. 2. A way of gettin someones attention. or if you say "Check it, dude" it is like sayin hey. 3. A way to tell someone to come over there and look because you want to show them something that is totally radical. For example: "Dude, check it, that senior just totally dogged!" (also a way to say hey). |
| CHERRY | Used to describe something real nice. |
| CHEWBACCA | A black surfer dude. |
| CHIKI-TI-TAS | Term used in the 60's, surfer girl. |
| CHILL | To calm down when not getting good waves. |
| CHILLAX | To totally lax out. |
| CHINESE WAX JOB | When you get wax on the bottom of your surfboard. Usually occurs from a board being packed or stacked against another waxed board. Makes the board slower and less responsive. |
| CHOCKA | Cool, Awsome, Gnarly, Bitchen. |
| CHODE BURN | When lower region gets rash from chafing. Usually caused by board or clothing |
| CHONNER | Somebody who totally fakes being a surfer and almost can pull it off, but they never go in the water and probably never will.(See Waxboy) |
| CHOPPY | When the wind is pushing the water to be choppy and not smooth. Sometimes can be annoying when trying to look out for a good set. Also see BUMP. |
| CHOW | Bye bye bye dudes |
| CHRUBEE | A wannabe surfer. Someone who wears the surf but doesn't do the surf. |
| CHUBBIE | Big fat roller, not much of a break. |
| CHUBBY CHECKER | Particular breed of poser (usually male, heavyset and middle aged) that spends an excellent surf day checking all the best spots, chatting about conditions, but never paddles out. Usually loiters in the parking lot before declaring the surf is not perfect enough and moves. Roof holds a longboard that looks like it has never been used. |
| CHURLEY | A mixture of sand and small stones wiping around in the water. It stings when they whip you in the face. |
| CHYEAH | Yes. |
| CIARA | Very pretty girl. Most popular. |
| CLEAN | 1. Glassy, peeling waves and/or good surf conditions. 2. Wave conditions in which the wind is affecting the ocean surface only slightly or not at all. Also see GLASSY. |
| CLEAN UP | 1. A larger unexpected wave that breaks outside of the normal line of the break. 2. A large set that catches everybody 'inside'. |
| CLICKITY SCHNAR SNAR | A crab that pinches your foot and says "schnar snar!" and then clicks its claws atcha. |
| CLIDRO | Description of process by where a surfer is turning up and down the face of a wave as he/she surfs down the line. Also used to describe the technique for gaining speed as a surfer traverses the wave face. |
| CLOSE-OUT | A wave that breaks along it's entire length simultaneously, often unreadable and no good for surfing. Usually causes a WIPEOUT. |
| CLOUD NINE | Hovering on top of the lip. |
| CLUTCH | See Crucial; "That wave was clutch" Also used to mean cool and/or desired, "Her board is clutch". |
| COCK SHOCK | Another term for peeing in your wetsuit. |
| COMING DOWN | What you shout when you are the first one up on the wave and it is yours just while you're dropping (See right and left). |
| CONCAVE | Bottom design on a surfboard aimed to give extra lift. |
| COOHA | A gnarly girl sufer. |
| COOKING | When the surf is really good |
| COOLAPHONIC | The coolest of the cool. |
| COOLEOLEOL | Cool; Awsome; Rad |
| COWABUNGA | A state of happiness. |
| CRACKIN' | Powerful, clean, perfect surf conditions. |
| CRANKED | To get beat up by a wave or to get stuck on the inside. |
| CRASHED MY DOOOBIE BOARD | To bog or crash ur surfboard/skimboard in an object (seaweed)etc. |
| CREW | Group of area surfers. |
| CRIPPLER CHICK | Pretty girl. |
| CRON | Very good or nice. |
| CROSS STEPPING | To walk the length of a board while maintaining balance, usually a lonboard manuver. |
| CRUCIAL | Important "that wave was crucial" like im glad i got tht wave. |
| CRUSIE IT | Come join the fun and kick it. |
| CRITICAL SECTION | The hardest and most challenging part of the wave to surf. |
| CRUISIN | To like chill and stuff and go out (newport, oregon) |
| CRUMBEATER | A barney wave scavenger, hangs out near the jetty, always in the way. |
| CRUNCHER | Hard breaking wave that folds over, almost impossible to ride. |
| CRUSHER | Someone who surfs hard. |
| CUCCINI | Totally rediculous. |
| CURL | The top part of a breaking wave where it begins to roll over, taking it's name from the shape. |
| CUTBACK | A turn on the face of the wave that takes you back towards white water. |
| CUT SICK | A cross between cutback and sick but with more generalised meaning as in "man she just cut totally sick today... she was goin off" or "yeah no I had a mad one last night... cut sick mate!" (Aussie) |
| CUZ | Same as brah, was up Cuz. |
