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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

... in one. When I asked why it was impossible to catch the animal, he informed me that it had eight legs with which to run. Four of the legs came out of the back, and, when tired with using the four lower ones, it just turned over and ran with the upper set. I did not see this freak, so add the salt to your taste, ...

— Through Five Republics on Horseback • G. Whitfield Ray

... chancellor; and Howe, first lord of the admiralty; besides Pitt who alone among them sat in the commons. Richmond again became master of the ordnance and a little later re-entered the cabinet. Dundas was treasurer of the navy. Pitt's acceptance of office was regarded by the opposition as a "boyish freak"; his ministry was "a mince-pie administration which would end with ...

— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt

... freak moving picture films where the actor suddenly bobs up in another place, without visibly crossing the intervening space. The next thing I knew, Garrick was standing across the room, in just that way. The handkerchief was folded up and in ...

— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve

... the end of his reflections, "if you do not know that what seems most improbable is what is most likely to be true. This maid is certainly not one of the flute-players or the like. Who knows what incomprehensible whim or freak may have brought her here? At any rate, it will be easier for her to keep her eyes open than ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... might have continued in that path indefinitely, but for two influences. One was an irruptive craving within him to take some part in the dynamic activities of the surrounding world. The other was the "freak" will of his late and little-lamented uncle, from whom he had his present income, and his future expectations of some ten millions. Adrian Van Reypen Egerton had, as Waldemar once put it, "—one into the mayor's chair with a good name and come out with a block of ice stock." In ...

— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams

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