malibun.
/ˈmalᵻbuː/, U.S. /ˈmæləˌbu/, Australian English /ˈmæləbuː/, New Zealand English /ˈmɛləbuː/ Chiefly Australian and New Zealand.
In full Malibu board. A long surfboard, of a type popular esp. in the 1950s and 1960s.
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1962 Austral. Women's Weekly Suppl. 24 Oct. 3/3 Malibu, type of surfboard made from foam, balsa, or fibre~glass and under 10 ft. long.
1965 N.Z. Listener 17 Dec. 4/4 Australia had its first look at the Malibu board when film star Peter Lawford took one ‘down under’ in 1954.
1970 N.Z. News 8 Apr. 16/3 A. Griffin won both the ski and malibu board races.
1986 Austral. Playboy (Sydney) Oct. 58/3 The malibu or longboard is an updated version of the huge plank boards of the '60s, designed to appeal to that rapidly growing slice of the surf market, the surfing Dad.
1991 A. Martin Walking on Water (1992) 211 Malibu, long board with a rounded nose, originating in California in the 1950s but currently undergoing a renaissance.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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