Freak
WordNet
noun
(1) Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
"A golf addict"
"A car nut"
"A bodybuilding freak"
"A news junkie"
(2) A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
verb
(3) Lose one's nerve
"When he saw the accident, he freaked out"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
- An oddball, especially in physiology; unique in a displeasing way.
- A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 120 kilos (260 pounds).
- A person who has an obsession or extreme knowledge of a something.
- A very sexually perverse individual, usually used affectionately or in another good willed context.
Verb
- To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance
- 1994, James Earl Hardy, B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-On-Black Love Story, (Alyson Publishing), page 107
- But after one night turned into five days, I was freaking out. I missed him.
- 1994, James Earl Hardy, B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-On-Black Love Story, (Alyson Publishing), page 107
- To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug
- 1992, Peter G. Stafford, Psychedelics Encyclopedia, (Ronin Publishing), page 56
- "[...] Harvard have compiled a list of LSD's contributions—largely missing before then—to our popular language: turned on, straight, freak, freaked out, stoned, [...]"
- 1992, Peter G. Stafford, Psychedelics Encyclopedia, (Ronin Publishing), page 56
- To streak
- 1930, Robert Seymour Bridges, The Testament of Beauty: A Poem in Four Books, (Literary Criticism), page 20
- "[...] 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 [...]"
- 1930, Robert Seymour Bridges, The Testament of Beauty: A Poem in Four Books, (Literary Criticism), page 20
- To experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.
- To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure