phreak

freak

1. verb, slang To suddenly express anger or excitement in a very visible way. Mom will freak when she finds out we broke her vase! I totally freaked when I heard we'd won tickets to the concert.
2. verb, slang To be startled or frightened. I completely freaked at the sight of that huge needle.
3. noun, slang A person or thing considered highly irregular, unconventional, or bizarre. Can be derogatory when used to describe a person. In this city, you can be a freak and not worry about people staring at you all the time. Look at that freak! Have you ever seen a bug like that? Dude, you need to stop hanging out with the freaks. What a bunch of weirdos.
4. noun, slang A person who is very sexually uninhibited. I've heard she's a real freak in bed.
5. An interjection used as a more mild version of "fuck." Freak! Where did I put my keys?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

freak

verb
See freak out

phreak

n. a respelling of freak. You stupid freak! Why’d you do that?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • freak out
  • freak out, to
  • freak someone out
  • freaked
  • freaked out
  • freaking
  • flag
  • flagged
  • flagging
  • dished
References in periodicals archive
At that time, phreaks were trying all sorts of ways to duplicate the frequency needed to jack the system, and Engressia discovered that a free whistle being given out in boxes of cereal could be used to that end.
A phreak is a person who breaks into telephone networks or other secured telecommunication systems to see how they work.
Phreak: "Some, as you predict, will anesthetize their minds with visual opiates peddled over the network.
191); early hackers were known as "phone phreaks" in the 1970s because they attempted to make free telephone calls (Coleman, 2012).
Steinmetz correctly takes a broad view of hacking, encompassing early assembly language programmers working tirelessly to optimize code, phone "phreaks" exploiting telephone systems, security consultants, pranksters, free and open software developers, and myriad other branches.
There was 1992's Sneakers, which took some of its inspiration from real-world phone phreaks John "Cap'n Crunch" Draper and Josef "Joybubbles" Engressia.
Hackers are no longer phreaks or society's fringe dwellers.
The phrase "information superhighway" was preceded by a century in an AT&T ad announcing "a highway of communication: Computer hacking grew out of the culture of "phone phreaks"--those early-1970s technological obsessives (Steve Jobs among them) who figured out how to manipulate the phone system to place free phone calls.
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Readers of a certain age might remember the "phone phreaks" of the 1960s and '70s who deviously manipulated telephone technology in order to make free long distance calls, disclose American Telephone and Telegraph secrets and, in general, drive AT&T crazy.
We've seen a rise in businesses that have either been phreaked or know of victims."
"We've seen a rise in businesses that have either been phreaked or know of companies who have been subject to this kind of criminal activity."
From that venue they have brought in national and international acts such as Mark E (Jisco Music), Charles Webster, inset, (Miso, Furry Phreaks), John Daly (Feel, Wave, Drumpoet Community), FishgoDeep (Go Deep, Defected), The Unabombers (Elektrons, Electric Chair), and Max Essa (Bear Funk) to name but a few.
There were also some repetitive entries--for example, Crackers Lamers and Phreaks, Hackers Crackers and Hacking, and Phreaking, which could have been combined somehow.
The episode of BBS that focuses on the darker side of the scene--hackers, crackers, phone phreaks, and software pirates--opens with a monologue from a portly aging biker called Bootleg with a great frizzy white beard and long hair, who sits astride a great black Harley taking drags from a cigarette.