freak out
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Etymology [edit]
Coined in the Mothers of Invention album Freak Out.
Verb [edit]
freak out (third-person singular simple present freaks out, present participle freaking out, simple past and past participle freaked out)
- (slang, intransitive) To react (or cause to react) with extreme anger or fear to something to the extent that one loses one's composure or behaves irrationally; originally, to suffer an unexpected and severe bad reaction from the recreational use of a psychotropic - usually hallucinogenic - drug,
- 1991, Thelma and Louise (movie)
- Jimmy'll come in off the road, you won't be there, he'll freak out and call you a hundred thousand times...
- 1991, Thelma and Louise (movie)
- (slang, transitive) To scare someone.
- 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”:
- Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.
- 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”:
Translations [edit]
react with anger or fear
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