Definition of "freak" in English

noun

1. (dated outside certain expressions) Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.

   • The two-headed calf was a freak.
   • freak of nature, freak of the weather, freak of the imagination

2. A hippie.

3. A drug addict.

4. (slang, chiefly derogatory) 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.

5. (bodybuilding) 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. 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. (informal, sometimes endearing) A very sexually perverse individual.

   • She's a freak in the sheets!

8. (African-American Vernacular) A wild dance.

   • Get your freak on.

9. (dated) A sudden change of mind.

10. (dated) A streak of colour; variegation.

11. Euphemistic form of fuck (“smallest amount of concern or consideration”).

verb

1. (intransitive, slang) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.

2. (slang, ambitransitive) 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.

3. (transitive, dated) To streak; to variegate

adjective

1. Strange, weird, unexpected.

   • a freak genius
   • freak accident

noun

1. A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.

2. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A fellow; a petulant young man.