kook cord
English
Etymology
See
kook
(
“
unskilful boarder
”
)
.
Noun
kook
cord
(
plural
kook cords
)
(
surfing
,
dated
)
A
leg rope
.
2000
, Ben Marcus, surfline.com
As recently as 1971, surf leashes were called "
kook cords
" by a surfing world that grew up thinking that a surfer must pay for his mistakes by swimming.
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