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freak noun- a person with strong sexual desires, often fetishistic US, 1922
- O, a lovely club I know on 72nd street thats just filled with freaks like you. — Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 193, 1957
- Say, there was asshole shellackers and shitpackers/ and freaks who drunk blood from a menstruatin’ womb. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 146, 1964
- How’d you figure it was a freak, Chilly? — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 88, 1967
- KAREN: You know, I’m kind of a freak myself. BILLY: Ha. I never really thought of myself as a freak. But I love to freak. — Peter Fonda, Easy Rider, p. 156, 1969
- A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to his achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification. — Xaviera Hollander, The Happy Hooker, p. 208, 1972
- They don’t want their wives to know they’re cold freaks,” she explains. “They bring their sex hang-ups to us. — George Paul Csicsery (Editor), The Sex Industry, p. 9, 1973
- That girl is pretty wild now / The girl’s a super freak / The kind of girl you read about / In New-wave magazines — Rick James, Super Freak, 1981
- This girl’s a freak! You can fuck her in the ass, fuck ’er in the mouth. Rough stuff, too. She’s a freak for it. — True Romance, 1993
- Women want a man to think he’s got a good woman, but they don’t want him to think he’s got a freak. Their solution: ration the pussy. — Chris Rock, Rock This!, pp. 129–130, 1997
- a devotee, an enthusiast US, 1895
- It seems like a pose, or even a perversion–and maybe it is, but to bike freaks it is very real. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 94, 1966
- He is divorced from his wife and has an 18-year-old boy who, he says, with an approving grin, “is a science freak with honors out of Erasmus High” — Sidney Bernard, This Way to the Apocalypse, p. 39, 1966
- [F]reak referred to styles and obsessions, as in “Stewart Brand is an Indian freak” or “the zodiac–that’s her freak[.]” — Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, p. 10, 1968
- “Beware of structure-freaks, they do not understand.” — Sol Yurrick, The Bag, p. 341, 1968
- — American Speech, pp. 306–307, Winter 1969: “Freak compounds for argot freaks”
- He was the co-editor with S.I. Hayakawa of ETC., the magazine put out by those word freaks. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, p. 100, 1972
- The man had been a tile-freak. — Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory, p. 91, 1975
- The 2.2 million ecology freaks who live there [Oregon] are reminded by their Highway Division to “thank Heaven we live in God’s Country.” — Bill Cardoso, The Maltese Sangweech, p. 88, 1984
- All thae [those] fitness freaks[.] — Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, 1988
- They were degenerate gamblers, coke freaks. — Casino, 1995
- a member of the 1960s counterculture US, 1960
Originally a disparaging negative, turned around and used in a positive, complimentary sense. Widely used from the mid-1960s; hurled as abuse at the original hippies, the term was adopted by them and turned back on the critics by the self-confessed “freaks” with an ability to FREAK OUT - [F]reak referred ... just to heads in costume. It wasn’t a negative word. — Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, p. 10, 1968
- They are the fringe whites ... outcasts ... worse than being a Negro or Puerto Rican. Assistant Chief Inspector Joseph McLaughjlin, boss of Manhattan South detectives, is tempted to send all these freaks to Hell. — The Digger Papers, p. 12, August 1968
- Anyway, I was struck by the distance between me and those street freaks. — Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed, p. 119, 16 February 1969
- The university became a fortress surrounded by our foreign culture, longhaired, dopesmoking, barefooted freaks who were using state-owned university property as a playground. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 26, 1970
- I feel like letting my freak flag fly. — David Crosby, Almost Cut My Hair, 1970
- [Y]our average acid-eating freak will be getting arrested for attempting to sit in the park under General Thomas’ horse in Thomas Circle[.] — Raymond Mungo, Famous Long Ago, p. 29, 1970
- Freak: The accepted word for those who are hip. — Screw, p. 7, 12 October 1970
- Which goes to show how much I knew about freaks in those days. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 9, 1971
- Let’s have around for these freaks and these soldiers. — Joni Mitchell, Carey, 1971
- Typical freaks, huh? — Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, Santa Claus and his Old Lady, 1971
- it’s really impressive and hopeful to see a beautiful place built by freaks and the houses up there are out of sight. — Paul and Meredith Chamisa Road, 1971
- What I mean by a FREAK is somebody who–well, everyone knows what it means, don’t they? — Doug Lang, Freaks, p. 12, 1973
- “Go to India,” someone told me. “That’s where the Freaks live.” — Cleo Odzer, Goa Freaks, p. 13, 1995
- It’s home sweet home to some sweet arse freaks. — Ian Dury, Itinerant Child, 1998
- I dozed off and was woke up by all these scary freaks and beefy gaylords, E’d up and gurning at the moon. — Sky Magazine, p. 70, May 2001
- a habitual drug user US, 1967
Usually suffixed to a defining drug. - [W]hen Roger Daltrey sang “My Generation” with the stutter of a pill freak, it made The Who the figureheads of the Mod movement. — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 72, 2001
- used as a term of endearment US
Teen slang. - — Look, p. 88, 10 August 1954
- a dance with strong suggestions of sexual movement, first popular as a 1975 disco dance and then again in the late 1990s and early 2000s US
Used with “the” unless used as a verb. - Freak: 1) Also known as free-style. The latest and possibly the greatest form of disco dancing. — Bruce Pollack, The Disco Handbook, p. 6, 1979
- Freak, The/La Freak/The Freaky Deaky: A 1975 disco dance often done in lines with movements like the Mashed Potato, the Shimmy, and the Twist of the 1960s and the Dirty Boogie of the 1950s. The dancer leads with the hips, but there is a lot of body touch[.] — Mari Helen Schultz, May I Have This Dance?, p. 38, 1986
- The latest version of dirty dancing is called “freaking” and while it’s been a mainstay at high school dances and teen parties for the last five years, now the moves are getting hotter and kids as young as 12 are doing them. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. A23, 3 June 2001
- a nonsensical novelty song US
- All crazy songs which make no sense are “freaks.” — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 33, 1948
- a wrestler whose huge size is obviously the result of the use of anabolic steroids US
- The WWF has just shown old clips of UW, reminding people of the steroid freak that existed in the WWF years ago. — Herb’s Wrestling Tidbits, 28 March 1996
- in poker, a wild card, which may be played as a card of any value US, 1949
- — Albert H. Morehead, The Complete Guide to Winning Poker, p. 263, 1967
▶ get your freak out to enjoy a sexual perversion US, 2003- It wasn’t always negative or always positive. It didn’t really matter–I didn’t care about anything but getting my freak on — Karen Hunter, I Make My Own Rules, p. 106, 1998
- The price is seventy five dollars a fuck, gentlemen, you gittin your freak on or what? — Kill Bill, 2003
- I hadn’t had sex in five days–a long-ass time when you like to get your freak on as much as I do. — Zane, The Sisters of APF, p. 80, 2003
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