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cowabunga

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
22
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˌkæɔəˈbaŋɡə/
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/ˌkæɔəˈbaŋɡə/ · /ˌkaʊəˈbʌŋɡə/(UK) · /ˌkaʊəˈbʌŋɡə/

Definition of cowabunga

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

intj

  1. (humorous, slang, usually)Expressing amazement, enthusiasm, or joy.
    “Cowabunga, dude!”
    “Kowa-Bunga! Then Me Fix You Good! You Be Sorry.”
    “Shouting the surfer's cry ‘Cowabunga!’ they climb a 12-ft. wall of water and ‘take the drop’ off its shoulder.”
    “Both words turn up in the same sentence—as in ‘Cowabunga, it's humongous!’—when the children crowd around some toy.”

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Etymology

Unknown, but was popularized (as Kowa-Bunga) by Chief Thunderthud on the American children's show Howdy Doody in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and became associated with American surfing culture.…

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Unknown, but was popularized (as Kowa-Bunga) by Chief Thunderthud on the American children's show Howdy Doody in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and became associated with American surfing culture. By the early 1980s, it was used as the catch-phrase of Cookie Monster on the American television show Sesame Street, and gained popularity with a broader audience after its use in the American cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (For further treatment, see here.)

Words you can make from cowabunga

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5-letter words

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4-letter words

16 words

3-letter words

43 words

2-letter words

15 words

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