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freak-out noun- a celebratory event, a gathering together of counterculturists to enjoy music and drugs US
A response to the critics who called them “freaks”, via FREAK OUT - These curious way-out events, simulating drug ecstasies, which are known as “freak-outs”, in which girls writhe and shriek and young men roll themselves naked in paint or jelly — Daily Express, 2 March 1967
- Those public freakouts which were initiated and promoted by the Underground itself were genuinely permissive[.] — Richard Neville, Play Power, p. 33, 1970
- The Hog Farm Freakout at NYU, March 1969, which took place the evening of the first day of shooting on Events. — Fred Baker, Events, p. 11, 1970
- [They] were enjoying the sort of bacchanalian freakout usually the preserve of mushied-up drongos invading Stonehenge for the Solstice. — Kevin Sampson, Powder, p. 27, 1999
- an uninhibited sexual exhibition US
- “Man, these motherfuckers have this restaurant, a Greek restaurant and jack if a chick wants a workout, I mean a freakout, that’s where they go. These Greeks work in teams, man. They fuck the chick between the toes, in the nose, and shit like that.” — Cecil Brown, The Life & Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, p. 148, 1969
- a temporary loss of sanity and control while under the influence of a psychoactive drug UK, 1966
- Besides the freak-out in the bathroom they are expecting a psychiatrist to look at Bob. — Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, p. 108, 1967
- a complete panic and loss of control US, 1970
- Is he going to put acid in everything consumable? Does he want to create a big freak out, a big bummer? — The San Francisco Oracle, 1966
- 1967 is the Year of the Overall Freak-Out. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America, p. 12, 3 January 1968: Letter to Gerald Walker
- Mothers and little kids dropped their picnic baskets and fled when they saw the signs. Near freakout. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 38, 1970
- I did think I’d just tell Hugh that I wanted to sleep with this guy. He freaked out. Total freak-out! Said he thought we were an item! — Sally Cline, Couples, p. 136, 1998
- a member of the 1960s counterculture UK
- Vogue and whiskey upper-class freak-outs who orbited around Paul Getty’s holiday house[.] — Richard Neville, Play Power, p. 234, 1970
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