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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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