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HODAD
Definition of HODAD
noun
Someone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers.
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Where it comes from
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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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HODAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HODAD starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADDHO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once.
Words that start HODAD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HODAD?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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