EGAVE

freak

About 1.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
    The two-headed calf was a freak.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A hippie.
  4. noun A drug addict.
  5. noun A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (120 kg).
  6. noun An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
    Bob's a real video-game freak. He owns every games console of the last ten years.
  7. noun A very sexually perverse individual.
    She's a freak in the sheets!
  8. noun A wild dance.
    Get your freak on.

Similar words

monstrosity monster gross out lose control freak out lusus naturae weirdo weird bizarre abnormality

Often followed by

of out show accident and in shows or who

Word family

freaked freaked-out freaking freaks

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