surf bunny

Mildly derogatory phrase, popular in the 1960s, for a young and usually voluptuous bikini-clad beauty; sometimes defined as a surfer, but more often synonymous with the resolutely nonsurfing "beach bunny." Also known as "bikini chick" or "bikini girl.

In Southern California and parts of Australia, bathing beauties were photographed as far back as the 1930s using surfboards as props. In the '60s, Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Party, and the rest of the Hollywood beach films of the period were lo...