stoke
Enduring surf slang expression meaning excited, pleased, happy, thrilled. "Stoke" is an English adaptation of the 17th-century Dutch word stok, used to describe the rearrangement of logs in a fireplace in order to bring up the flames. California surfers began using the word in the early or mid-'50s, and it never went out of fashion. Variations include "stoker," "surf-stoked," "stoke-um," "stokaboka," and "stokearama."
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