Definitions
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- verb To ride waves or
surf without equipment, such as asurfboard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb ride the crest of a wave without a surfboard
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Examples
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I just need to breathe, and relax, and body-surf this sucker.
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"If they try to body-surf on that, good night," he muttered; for he knew the swimmer did not live who would tackle it.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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Beyond the wave they had gone through, they finally showed, side by side, still six feet apart, swimming shoreward with a steady stroke until the next wave should make them body-surf it or face and pierce it.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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Or there are the wilder beaches of Les Alcyons or Cenitz, where you can lie on the white sand or body-surf in the big waves.
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I like the Mutha Sucka one : PS: She didn't really body-surf right ? lol
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Beyond the wave they had gone through, they finally showed, side by side, still six feet apart, swimming shoreward with a steady stroke until the next wave should make them body-surf it or face and pierce it.
The Kanaka Surf 1919
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"If they try to body-surf on that, good night," he muttered; for he knew the swimmer did not live who would tackle it.
The Kanaka Surf 1919
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Cut'em in half, slice'em apart, and then body-surf their entrails.
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Cut'em in half, slice'em apart, and then body-surf their entrails.
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Cut'em in half, slice'em apart, and then body-surf their entrails.
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