Sekirov Dictionary

freak

/fɹiːk/

noun 13
verb 2
adjective 1
forms 4
phrases 4

noun13

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someone or something very unusual that nobody could have expected
- The two-headed calf was a freak.
A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (120 kg).
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(slang, offensive) A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.
- St. Bart’s was not particularly pleased either with Lake’s methods or with their results, but kept him on because it was fashionable to have at least one distinguished freak on the staff. — 1957
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An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
- Bob's a real video-game freak. He owns every games console of the last ten years.
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(informal) A very sexually perverse individual.
- She's a freak in the sheets!
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A wild dance.
- Get your freak on.
(informal, euphemistic) Euphemistic form of fuck (“smallest amount of concern or consideration”).
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(slang, offensive) A drug addict.
- Smith and Sturges [June 1969] note in their study of the San Francisco drug scene that freak means "anyone addicted to drugs." — 1969
(slang, offensive) A hippie.
(old-fashioned) A sudden change of mind.
(dialect, UK) A fellow; a petulant young man.
A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.
(old-fashioned) A spot or streak of colour.

verb2

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(slang) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.
- When the owner found a bunch of beatniks in there, he freaked, but that was later. — 1968
(slang) 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.

adjective1

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Strange, weird, unexpected.
- A freak goal gave Forest the lead when a clearance by keeper John Ruddy bounced off Nathan Tyson and flew in. — 2011

forms

freaked · fruck · freaking · freaks

Phrases with freak

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