freak

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/fɹiːk/

noun 7verb 3adj 1

Collocations

(noun.) strange/unusual event

FREAK + NOUN

accident, result, storm, wave

A freak storm knocked down trees across the entire neighborhood last night.

PREP

~ of

An unusual weather pattern turned out to be just a freak of nature that summer.

PHRASES

by some freak of sth

By some freak of circumstance, the two friends ended up working at the same company.

(noun.) person with a very strong interest in sth

ADJ

computer, fitness, health, speed

My brother is a real fitness freak who goes to the gym every single day.

control

My brother is such a control freak that he reorganizes the kitchen every single week.

PHRASES

a bit of a freak

(noun.) sb who is considered to be strange

VERB + FREAK

feel

regard sb as

Some people regard her as a freak because she collects insects as a hobby.

PHRASES

a bit of a freak

She admitted she was a bit of a freak because she preferred reading books to going to parties.

Definitions

noun

Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.

The two-headed calf was a freak.

freak of nature, freak of the weather, freak of the imagination

A hippie.

When long-haired, outlandishly dressed, drug-using hippies pilgrimaged to Haight-Ashbury in the early 1960s, they were quickly dubbed freaks; the pejorative appellation was both obvious and intended. It was not long before freak had become practically synonymous with hippie. It seems, however, that with the acceptance of long hair, the appearance and popularity of some rather bizarre fashions, and the emphasis placed upon "doing one's own thing," freak is no longer burdened with all of its former derogatory associations. Instead […] the word is beginning to acquire a quality which is favorable, glamorous, and somehow even admirable.

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."

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.

Gentrification often starts with the artists, revolutionaries, freaks, transfolks, and queers (what I would call my people) moving into poor neighborhoods inhabited by people of color.

A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (120 kg).

verb

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.

But after one night turned into five days, I was freaking out. I missed him.

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.

To streak; to variegate

Freakt with many a mingled hue.

[…] in fine diaper of silver and mother-of-pearl freaking the intense azure; Now scurrying close overhead, wild ink-hued random racers that fling sheeted […]

adj

Strange, weird, unexpected.

a freak genius

freak accident

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Synonyms

noun — someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it rese

noun — a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

freak flag

Unconventional or unrestrained behavior; extreme, nonconformist views; the side of one's personality which harbors a tendency toward such behavior or such views.

"We were just blatantly flaunting our freak flag," she says. "We were trying to be badder than anyone else—and we were getting away with it!"

get one's freak on

To have sex.

Example Bank

The two-headed calf was a freak.

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freak of nature, freak of the weather, freak of the imagination

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[H]aving a dinner-party at his rooms to entertain some friends from London, nothing would satisfy Mr. Foker but painting Mr. Buck’s door vermilion, in which freak he was caught by the proctors …

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When the owner found a bunch of beatniks in there, he freaked, but that was later.

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But after one night turned into five days, I was freaking out. I missed him.

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Freakt with many a mingled hue.

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Usage Notes

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