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Where did the slang term cowabunga originate?

April 26, 2017cowabunga originate Slang term

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Where did the slang term cowabunga originate?

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“Cowabunga!” – most recently immortalized by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – was the greeting used between Buffalo Bob Smith and Chief Thunderthud on the Howdy Doody Show during the 1950’s. Later, the term became widely used in the Gidget surfer movies, and also in the Peanuts cartoon strip.