surfie

Noun

surfie (plural surfies)

1. (Australia) A surfer (one who rides a surfboard), especially one involved in the surfing subculture.
   • Surfies present to the dominant culture their leisure myth in magnified form. Bikies appear to challenge the values of the dominant culture, something which they are able to do because they, in the first place, like the surfies, accept them.
     The surfie subculture in its full form was confined to...1997, Jon Stratton, “20: On the Importance of Subcultural Origins”, in Ken Gelder, Sarah Thornton, editors, The Subcultures Reader, page 184
   • The first youth to reach their carriage, a lanky aboriginal boy of about sixteen shouted, “Hey, we′ve got some surfies here!”
     “We′re not surfies,” Terry replied quietly. It was no good. In the era of the early nineteen sixties one was either a “surfie” or a “bodgie.” Bodgies hated surfies with a...2004, Alan Greenhalgh, Gathers No Moss, Lulu Press, page 88