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
- SF - Larry Fitzgerald WR Arizona - Fitz is what we call a freak of an athlete.
- Withdrawal now? withdrawal later? troop expansion? what? what the freak is your positionh?
- Greg, I think the term freak show is apropos because of the first definition of the word here:
- You see, the frequency used by him and in what we call freak bombs, acts first on brain and nerve cells.
- He expressed his regret and says they are trying to determine exactly what caused what he called a freak fire.
- If Mr. Webster had decided to put the word freak in his dictionary, Anna Fitzgerald would be the best definition he could give.
- We talked to a spokesman for the balloon company, expressed his regrets of course, and says they're trying to determine what caused what he calls a freak fire.
- And not the kind of freak show where everybody's trying to be a freak, but the kind where people really are really freaky and are usually trying their darnedest to seem normal, and when you meet them you might think for about five seconds that they're actually normal, but then they inadvertently let there freak flag fly, and you suddenly realize, "Wow, this person is a freakin 'freak!"
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