freak

Plural: freaks

Noun

• a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
• someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
  • "a bodybuilding freak"
• Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
• A hippie.
• A drug addict.
• 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.
• A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (120 kg).
• An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
• A very sexually perverse individual.
• A wild dance.
• A sudden change of mind.
• A streak of colour; variegation.
• Euphemistic form of fuck (“smallest amount of concern or consideration”).
• A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.
• A fellow; a petulant young man.

Verb

Verb Forms: freaked, freaking, freaks

• To streak or mark with irregular lines or colors.
• lose one's nerve
  • "When he saw the accident, he freaked out"
• To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.
• 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

Adj

• Strange, weird, unexpected.

Examples

• a freak genius
• Bob's a real video-game freak. He owns every games console of the last ten years.
• freak accident
• freak of nature, freak of the weather, freak of the imagination
• Get your freak on.
• His opponent’s unusual play of FREAK was a bold move that paid off unexpectedly.
• She's a freak in the sheets!
• The two-headed calf was a freak.

Synonyms

addict, freak out, gross out, junkie, junky, lusus naturae, monster, monstrosity, nut, aberrant, abnormal, abnormality, abuser, admirer, aficionado, alien, anomalous, anomaly, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, bizarro, boutade, buff, capriccio, caprice, conceit, connoisseur, coot, crackpot, crank, crotchet, curious, delirament, deviance, deviant, devotee, discrepant, donjuanist, druggie, eccentric, eerie, eldritch, enthusiast, erotomaniac, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fan, fanatic, fancier, fancy, fangle, farlie, fey, fiend, figary, flisk, forby, fortuitous, fortunate, freak, freakish, freaky, free spirit, fremd, fuckster, funny, geek, glaik, happy, hard case, heteroclite, hinky, horn dog, hornball, hypersexual, incongruitous, incongruous, individualist, irregular, irregularity, kink, kook, kooky, lark, live one, longhair, lucky, maggot, maniac, maverick, megrim, misfit, monstrous, nonconformist, nonstandard, nutbag, nutbar, nutcase, nutter, odd, odd bod, odd duck, odd fish, oddball, oddity, offbeat, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outlier, outré, partisan, peculiar, peculiarity, pervert, providential, quaint, queer, queer as Dick's hatband, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer fish, queerdo, queerness, ramp, rare, rarity, rooter, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, serendipitous, sex addict, singular, slave, sonsy, spleen, strange, strange bird, strange fish, strangeling, strangeness, superciliary, toy, tree hugger, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unusual, unusualness, unwonted, user, vagary, vein, wack, wacko, wastoid, weird, weirdie, weirdling, weirdness, weirdo, weirdsome, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, wild man, wingnut, yampy, zealot

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