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noun

Freak n.

A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice. "She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation."

A rare and unpredictable event; as, the July snowstorm was a freak of nature.

An habitual drug user, especially one who uses psychedelic drugs.

An animal or person with a visible congenital abnormality; applied especially to those who appear in a circus sideshow.

Synonyms: Whim; caprice; folly; sport. See Whim.

verb

Freak v. t. (past & past part. freaked; pres. part. freaking) To variegate; to checker; to streak. (R.) "Freaked with many a mingled hue."

Freak v. t.

To cause (a person) react with great distress or extreme emotion; often used in the phrase freak out.

Freak v. i.

To react with irrationality or extreme emotion; to lose one's composure; often used in the phrase freak out.

To become irrational or to experience hallucinations under the influence of drugs; often used in the phrase freak out.

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Etymology of 'Freak'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Freak" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Say, who was that freak that poked her head out or the door as I came in?" said that gentleman, as soon as he had banged the door shut, and seated himself comfortably in Von ...

— The Music Master - Novelized from the Play • Charles Klein

... worst is to watch a man that has nothing to conceal. And our little old million-dollar-a-rod hill is the unlikeliest place to look for a mine I ever did see. Just plain dirt and sand. No indications; just a plain freak. I'd sooner take a chance in the pasture lot behind pa's red barn—any one would. We covered up all the scratchin' we did and the wind has done the rest. Here—you was to do ...

— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

... up violently against what I took to be the rail, breathed, and breathed the sweet air again. I tried to rise, but struck my head and was knocked back on hands and knees. By some freak of the waters I had been swept clear under the forecastle-head and into the eyes. As I scrambled out on all fours, I passed over the body of Thomas Mugridge, who lay in a groaning heap. There was no time to investigate. I must get the ...

— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London

... Committee, but they enable him to delay it grievously. We divided seventeen times, and between every division this vexatious Irishman made us a speech of apologies and self-condemnation. Of the two who had supported him at the beginning of his freak one soon sneaked away. The other, Sibthorpe, stayed to the last, not expressing remorse like Shaw, but glorying in the unaccommodating temper he showed and in the delay which he produced. At last the bill went through. Then Shaw rose; congratulated himself that his ...

— Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan

... poor comrade shivering stood the watch Till dawn of day and I was made aware. Among the true were some vainglorious fools Called by the fife and drum from native mire To lord and strut in shoulder-straps and buttons. Scrubs, born to brush the boots of gentlemen, By sudden freak of fortune found themselves Masters of better men, and lorded it As only base and brutish natures can— Braves on ...

— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon

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