Definition:
A social outcast or misfit; a strange person
Example:
1) Stephan has no friends and spends all his time in the basement. What a freak !
2) The protest rally was filled with hippies and freaks.
Etymology: In the 1700s, 'freaked' meant 'covered with spots or colors'. By 1900, 'freak' meant 'irregular' or 'not normal', perhaps in reference to spots of color as imperfections in a manufacturing process. Today, 'freak' has a surprising number of meanings, all coming from the sense of 'irregular', including: an hippie, a drug addict, crazy behavior ( as in 'He freaked when I told him I wrecked his car'), a sexually promiscuous person, an unusually beautiful woman.
Synonyms: weirdo
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