hodad

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noun

Someone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers.

OriginSpanish jodido →
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Meanings

nounhodad (plural hodads)

plural hodads · alternative ho-dad · alternative hodaddy

  1. derogatoryslanghobbiesSomeone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
hodaddythingy

Origin

  1. Spanishjodido“fucked, difficult, annoying”
  2. Englishhodad

Originally Californian surfer slang from the 1960s. Perhaps from the greeting Ho! Dad, though no evidence for this derivation is known. The suggestion that it derives from Western Hemisphere Spanish jodido (“fucked, difficult, annoying”) similarly lacks evidence; also the vowel change from -did to -dad is unexplained.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Dahod
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APA

hodad. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hodad

MLA

“hodad.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hodad. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hodad,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hodad.

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