freak
IPA: frˈik
noun
- (dated) Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
- A hippie.
- A drug addict.
- (derogatory) A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.
- (bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (117.934 kilos).
- An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
- (informal, sometimes endearing) A very sexually perverse individual.
- (African-American Vernacular) A wild dance.
- (dated) A sudden change of mind
- (dated) A streak of colour; variegation.
- A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) A fellow; a petulant young man.
verb
- (intransitive, slang) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.
- (slang, transitive, intransitive) To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug, (especially) to experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.
- (transitive, dated) To streak; to variegate
adjective
- Strange, weird, unexpected.
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Examples of "freak" in Sentences
- The freaks were the hippies.
- Equipoise was considered to be a freak.
- Freaks are in the eyes of the beholder.
- His sudden irruption made me freak out.
- Hampton is both glutton and clean freak.
- It is a bit touchy and you may freak out.
- The Blessed later went on to become The Freaks.
- The children then participate in the freak show.
- It's all in the article and the freak links attached to it.
- The cause of the fire was nothing short of a freak accident.