[friːk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a very unusual and unexpected event or situation
(e.g: the teacher says the accident was a total freak)

- a person, animal, or plant with an unusual physical abnormality
(e.g: a few freaks have been discovered, one amazing cat tipping the scales at no less than 43 lbs)

- a person who is obsessed with a particular activity or interest
(e.g: a fitness freak)

- a sudden arbitrary change of mind; a whim
(e.g: follow this way or that, as the freak takes you)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in freak): probably from a dialect word

[friːk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- behave or cause to behave in a wild and irrational way, typically because of the effects of extreme emotion or drugs
(e.g: he freaked out and smashed the place up)

- fleck or streak randomly
(e.g: the white pink and the pansy freaked with jet)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in freak): probably from a dialect word