freak

Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.

• The two-headed calf was a freak.
• freak of nature, freak of the weather, freak of the imagination

A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.derogatoryslang

• St. Bart’s was not particularly pleased either with Lake’s methods or with their results, but kept him on because it was fashionable to have at least one distinguished freak on the staff.
• Gentrification often starts with the artists, revolutionaries, freaks, transfolks, and queers (what I would call my people) moving into poor neighborhoods inhabited by people of color.

A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.; A hippie.derogatoryslang

• When long-haired, outlandishly dressed, drug-using hippies pilgrimaged to Haight-Ashbury in the early 1960s, they were quickly dubbed freaks; the pejorative appellation was both obvious and intended. It was not long before freak had become

A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.; A drug addict.derogatoryslang

• Smith and Sturges [June 1969] note in their study of the San Francisco drug scene that freak means "anyone addicted to drugs."

A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (120 kg).

An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.

• Bob's a real video-game freak. He owns every games console of the last ten years.

A very sexually perverse individual.endearinginformalsometimes

• She's a freak in the sheets!

A wild dance.

• Get your freak on.

A sudden change of mind.dated

• And then, with heart more hard than stone, ¶ He pick'd my marrow from the bone. ¶ To vex me more, he took a freak ¶ To slit my tongue and make me speak: ¶ But, that which wonderful appears, ¶ I speak to eyes, and not to ears.

Euphemistic form of fuck (“smallest amount of concern or consideration”).euphemisticform-of

• So why am I grieving over someone who doesn't even give a freak about me? These vindictive ideas flowed through my head. A part of me wanted to carve my name into his little Saturn leather seats, but I remembered they weren't leather.
• They hear you, not out in the car, but when you practically say it to their face, they could make things hard for you, just to get back at you. You never know.” “Hey, Flor, not for nothin', but I don't give a freak about them guys or[…]

To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.intransitiveslang

• When the owner found a bunch of beatniks in there, he freaked, but that was later.
• But after one night turned into five days, I was freaking out. I missed him.

To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug, (especially) to experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.ambitransitiveslang

Strange, weird, unexpected.not-comparable

• a freak genius
• freak accident

Alternative spelling of freck (“to cover (someone or something) with small marks or spots; to dapple, to freckle, to speckle”)alt-ofalternative

• The tufted Crovv-toe, and pale Geſſamine, / The vvhite Pink, and the Panſie freakt vvith jeat, / The glovving Violet.
• Sables, of gloſſy black; and dark-embrovvn'd, / Or beauteous freakt vvith many a mingled hue, / Thouſands beſides, the coſtly pride of courts.

A spot or streak of colour.dated

A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.

A fellow; a petulant young man.ScotlandUKdialectal