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Freak   /frik/   Listen
noun
Freak  n.  
1.
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."
2.
A rare and unpredictable event; as, the July snowstorm was a freak of nature.
3.
An habitual drug user, especially one who uses psychedelic drugs.
4.
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.  
1.
To cause (a person) react with great distress or extreme emotion; often used in the phrase freak out.


Freak  v. i.  
1.
To react with irrationality or extreme emotion; to lose one's composure; often used in the phrase freak out.
2.
To become irrational or to experience hallucinations under the influence of drugs; often used in the phrase freak out.





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"Freak" Quotes from Famous Books



... talent, John Friar Brownlow at once for industry and steadiness. They had stood out resolutely against more than one of his pranks, and had been the only boys in the house not present on the occasion of his last freak-a champagne supper, when parodies had been sung, caricaturing all the authorities; and when the company had become uproarious enough to rouse the whole family, the boys were discovered in the midst of the most audacious but ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... passed his twelfth birthday; when, by some strange freak, he brought home one day a lace parasol. He had found it in the highroad, on his way back to the Place after a sedate ramble in the forest. Now, it was nothing new for the great collie to find missing articles belonging to the Mistress ...
— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune
... thought she contemplated some idle freak that might try his gallantry, perhaps his purse. But she was in earnest, if ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... promise me, upon your honor, that when this freak of yours is over, and the bug business (good God!) settled to your satisfaction, you will then return home and follow my advice implicitly, ...
— The Short-story • William Patterson Atkinson
... remember you're a gentleman, sir. Gone steerage in a bit of a freak; but now you've told him you'd prefer to be called by your proper name. Mr. Luttrell, ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant


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