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   freak

   /frēk/

   noun

   • 1. a very unusual and unexpected event or situation: "the teacher says the accident was a total freak" Similar flukeanomalyaberrationroguerarityquirkoddityoutlieredge caseunusual occurrencepeculiar turn of eventstwist of fatechancecoincidencehazardaccidentmistake
   • 2. a person, animal, or plant with an unusual physical abnormality: "a few freaks have been discovered, one amazing cat tipping the scales at no less than 43 lbs" Similar aberrationabnormalityirregularityodditymonstermonstrositymalformationmutantfreak of nature
   • ▪ a person regarded as strange because of their unusual appearance or behavior: informal "he used to be called a freak at school and knows how much it hurts" Similar oddityeccentriceccentric personpeculiar personstrange personunorthodox personindividualistfree spiritmaverickmisfitcranklunaticinformal:oddballweirdoweirdienutcasenutodd bodnutterqueer fishwackoscrewballkookwackadoowackadoodleinformal, dated:case
   • 3. a person who is obsessed with or unusually enthusiastic about a specified interest: informal "a fitness freak" Similar enthusiastfanfanaticaddictdevoteelovermasterwizardexpertaficionadoinformal:bufffiendnutmaniacacemavengeekjockfundi
   • ▪ a person addicted to a drug of a particular kind: "the twins were cocaine freaks"
   • 4. a sudden arbitrary change of mind; a whim: archaic "follow this way or that, as the freak takes you"

   verb

   • 1. behave or cause to behave in a wild and irrational way, typically because of the effects of extreme emotion, mental illness, or drugs: informal "I could have freaked out and started smashing the place up"
   • 2. fleck or streak randomly: archaic "the white pink and the pansy freaked with jet"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in freak (sense 4 of the noun)): probably from a dialect word.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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