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cowabunga; cuyabunga!
used as an expression of triumph US, 1955
Originally a signature line uttered by Chief Thunderthud on The Howdy Doody Show (NBC, 1947–60). Embraced by surfers, American soldiers in Vietnam, and the writers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons.- — Paradise of the Pacific, p. 27, October 1963
- Those hopsotch poledads and pedestrains too, will bug ya / Shout “Cuyabunga!” now and skate right on through. — Jan Berry and Dean Torrance, Sidewalk Surfin’, 1964
- — John M. Kelly, Surf and Sea, p. 282, 1965
- — Hy Lit, Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dictionary of Hip Words for Groovy People, p. 10, 1968
- Gene Brabender sometimes walks around bellowing “cowabunga!” So I threw some trivia at him. “Bender, who first said ‘cowabunga?’” — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 314, 1970
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