[friːk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a very unusual and unexpected event or situation
(e.g: the teacher says the accident was a total freak)

- a person who is obsessed with or unusually enthusiastic about a particular activity or interest
(e.g: a fitness freak)

- an animal, plant, or person with unusual physical development
(e.g: a few freaks have been discovered, one amazing cat tipping the scales at no less than 43 lbs)

- a hippy or other unconventional person associated with 1960s counterculture

- a sudden arbitrary change of mind; a whim
(e.g: follow this way or that, as the freak takes you)


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Origin:
mid 16th century (in freak): probably from a dialect word

[friːk], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- (of an event or situation) very unusual and unexpected
(e.g: officers are now satisfied that the incident was a freak accident)

- having unusual physical development
(e.g: a freak red cabbage with side shoots coming from the leaves)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in freak): probably from a dialect word

[friːk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- become very alarmed, angry, or emotional
(e.g: when I saw the plan I just freaked)

- fleck or streak randomly
(e.g: the white pink and the pansy freaked with jet)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in freak): probably from a dialect word