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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

... brought up in the enjoyment of every comfort and every luxury that refinement could devise and wealth furnish. He was a favourite child. His parents emulated each other in pampering and indulging him. Every freak was pardoned, every whim was gratified. He might ride what horses he liked, and if he broke their knees, what in another would have been deemed a flagrant sin, was in him held only a proof of reckless spirit. If he were not a thoroughly selfish and altogether ...

— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli

... 'Tis with almost all of us, as in Monsieur Massillon's magnificent image regarding King William, a grain de sable that perverts or perhaps overthrows us; and so it was but a light word flung in the air, a mere freak of a perverse child's temper, that brought down a whole heap of crushing woes upon that family whereof ...

— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

... with the easy habit of an interviewed heroine or a freak of nature at a show. "Nobody whatever." But the last thing she had come for was to be dreary about it. "I'm a survivor—a survivor of a general wreck. You see," she added, "how that's to be taken into account—that everyone else ...

— The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 • Henry James

... freak of Aunt Eliza's," said Mrs. Tracy. "Why does she pass over you, and give the preference to ...

— Luke Walton • Horatio Alger

... thought, in the midst of that teeming throng, the various episodes in the drama of which my mysterious neighbor was the principal character, passed before my mind. I again and again reviewed the strange events which, by some freak of fortune, I had been a witness to. What was the basis on which my friend, with two sets of names, founded his dream of inexhaustible wealth, this mission he had intrusted to Pepito? What the mission ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. VI, June, 1862 - Devoted To Literature and National Policy • Various

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