Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Strange or unusual; freakish.
- adjective Slang Frightening.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to freaks; capricious; whimsical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective markedly unusual or abnormal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective resembling a
freak - adjective slang
odd ;bizarre ;unusual - adjective slang
scary ;frightening - adjective slang
sexually deviant
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective strange and somewhat frightening
- adjective conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
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Examples
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As for use of the term "freaky boy," Savage insisted it wasn't meant in a derogatory fashion.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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But is it just me that, when hearing rappers in songs talking about getting "freaky" or getting their "freak" on or bringing out the "freak" in a woman, thinks, "*YAWN* That's what you call freaky!"
"Freaky" 2006
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But is it just me that, when hearing rappers in songs talking about getting "freaky" or getting their "freak" on or bringing out the "freak" in a woman, thinks, "*YAWN* That's what you call freaky!"
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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For those of you who can't watch, here's a summary: Arquette explains that he and his "wife" (see what I mean about awkward?) like to engage in freaky sex acts involving dressing up in head-to-toe bunny costumes.
David Arquette, Courteney Cox and the PSA that makes no sense Liz Kelly 2010
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And how freaky is it to be voluntarily spreading ads to people?
Advertising and Bunnies lili 2007
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How freaky is it that we both posted reviews of the same book on our blogs on the same day?
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If you have to double down on anything, do it on 'freaky' -- like moose hunting.
"If I were advising the candidates, I’d tell them to double down on weirdness." Ann Althouse 2008
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Sergey Maximishin's pictures of Russia are incredible, from the kitschy to the haunting to the just plain freaky.
Boing Boing 2009
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I'm not sure how to describe Diatom other than to say it's pretty effin 'freaky.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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It looks perfectly freaky, which is what it's all about for me.
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