rogue wave

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noun
  1. a random, enormous ocean wave that sometimes travels at an angle to prevailing seas.

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  • The unusually big swells of this winter season have also forced me to be prepared, push my limits, and handle rogue waves and hold-downs and other people’s flying boards and bodies.

    The Spark After the Darkness | Bonnie Tsui | February 6, 2021 | Outside Online
  • Then this year, mathematicians developed an overarching method of predicting when and where rogue waves might appear, as writer Charlie Wood described in “The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves.”