freak

freak
1. noun /friːk/
a) A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.

Bobs a real video-game freak. He owns every games console of the last ten years.

b) A nonconformist, especially in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, especially in physiology (i.e., "circus freak"); unique, sometimes in a displeasing way.
2. verb /friːk/
a) To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance

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

b) To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug

"[...] Harvard have compiled a list of LSDs contributions—largely missing before then—to our popular language: turned on, straight, freak, freaked out, stoned, [...]"

3. adjective /friːk/

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  • freak — freak …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • Freak — Freak …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

  • freak — [ frik ] n. • 1966; mot angl. amér. « monstre » ♦ Anglic. Jeune refusant les valeurs de la société bourgeoise sans pour autant appartenir à un mouvement. Spécialt Toxicomane qui consomme des drogues dures. ⊗ HOM. Fric. ● freak nom masculin… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • freak — freak·ish; freak; freak·ery; freak·i·ness; freak·ing; freak·ish·ly; freak·ish·ness; …   English syllables

  • freak — freak1 [frēk] n. [Early ModE < ? OE frician, to dance (> ME freking, whim, capricious conduct)] 1. a) a sudden fancy; odd notion; whim b) an odd or unusual happening 2. any abnormal animal, person, or plant; monstrosity ☆ 3. Slang …   English World dictionary

  • freak — (n.) 1560s, sudden turn of mind, of unknown origin, perhaps related to O.E. frician to dance (not recorded in M.E., but the word may have survived in dialect) [OED, Barnhart], or perhaps from M.E. frek bold, quickly, from O.E. frec greedy,… …   Etymology dictionary

  • freak|y — «FREE kee», adjective. freak|i|er, freak|i|est, noun, plural freak|ies. –adj. 1. = freakish. (Cf. ↑freakish) …   Useful english dictionary

  • Freak — Freak, v. i. 1. to react with irrationality or extreme emotion; to lose one s composure; often used in the phrase {freak out}. [PJC] 2. to become irrational or to experience hallucinations under the influence of drugs; often used in the phrase… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Freak — Freak, n. [Prob. from OE. frek bold, AS. frec bold, greedly; akin to OHG. freh greedly, G. frech insolent, Icel. frekr greedy, Goth. fa[ i]hufriks avaricious.] 1. A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • freak — s.m. e f.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} appartenente a un movimento giovanile degli anni Settanta che esprimeva il distacco critico dalla società attraverso un abbigliamento stravagante e un comportamento individualista e anticonvenzionale; anche… …   Dizionario italiano

  • freak — [n1] something, someone very abnormal aberration, abortion, anomaly, chimera, curiosity, geek*, grotesque, malformation, miscreation, misshape, monster, monstrosity, mutant, mutation, oddity, queer, rarity, sport, weirdo*; concepts 424,580 Ant.… …   New thesaurus

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