Meaning of Surf | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of speeded up robust features.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
   countable, uncountable
3. An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf.
   countable, uncountable
4. A dance popular in the 1960s in which the movements of a surfboard rider are mimicked.
   countable, uncountable
5. The bottom of a drain.
   UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable

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Examples

“[…] perhaps it was the look of the island, with its gray, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach […]”

“'But when the surf fell enough for the boats to get ashore, and Greening held a lantern for me to jump down into the passage, after we had got the side out of the tomb, the first thing the light fell on at the bottom was a white face turned skyward.”

“It was alone, nervously alighting and flying short distances along the surf.”

“In most instances the inshore holes or pockets along the surf do not produce as well as the cuts or sloughs between sand bars.”

“Snook are found in rivers, canals, inlets and along the surf, especially around sand bars, tidal rips, jetties, bridges and piers.”

“We went for a surf this morning.”

“She [...] loves to cook, sew and dance. She's up on all the latest steps like the frug, the hully-gully and the surf.”

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