1909 3 Feb. 5/3 Some of the surf rats followed his [sc. a shark's] course along a good length of the beach.
2002 T. Pinchuck et al. (ed. 3) 365 In the surfing pecking order, the rising stars are ‘grommets’ or ‘surf rats’, 16- or 17-year-olds who challenge the ‘old bullets’—the 20- or 30-somethings whom they consider to be over the hill.