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COWABUNGA
Definition of COWABUNGA
interjection
Expressing amazement, enthusiasm, or joy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unknown, but was popularized (as Kowa-Bunga) by Chief Thunderthud on the American children's show Howdy Doody in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and became associated with American surfing culture. By the early 1980s, it was used as the catch-phrase of Cookie Monster on the American television show Sesame Street, and gained popularity with a broader audience after its use in the American cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (For further treatment, see here.)
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COWABUNGA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 175, 11 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
COWABUNGA starts with C and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AABCGNOUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found COWABUNGA?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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