impact zone

American  

noun

1. (in surfing) the dangerous position on a wave that is just about to separate and collapse; the falling lip of a wave.

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Example Sentences

I remember the dread of watching the wrong motorcycle drive into the impact zone of our bombs.

From Washington Post

And yet safe passage on land to the earthquake’s impact zone is questionable.

From Seattle Times

One Wednesday morning last September, he was at Impact Zone at 7:30.

From New York Times

In late May, after he’d lost 60 pounds, Bronson reached out to Dave Paladino, the owner of Impact Zone, a fitness complex in Norwood, N.J., who had been training his friend, the former Yankees pitcher C. C. Sabathia.

From New York Times

The city announced the curfew for South Beach’s “High Impact Zone” only hours earlier in reaction to spring break crowds so violently rowdy that Ocean Drive’s longest continuously open establishment, The Clevelander, announced Friday it was shutting down until March 24.

From Seattle Times