a very unusual and unexpected event or situation

the teacher says the accident was a total freak

a person who is obsessed with or unusually enthusiastic about a particular activity or interest

a fitness freak

an animal, plant, or person with unusual physical development

a few freaks have been discovered, one amazing cat tipping the scales at no less than 43 lbs

today we might pour scorn on the Victorian obsession with ‘freaks’

a hippy or other unconventional person associated with 1960s counterculture

a sudden arbitrary change of mind; a whim

follow this way or that, as the freak takes you

(of an event or situation) very unusual and unexpected

officers are now satisfied that the incident was a freak accident

a freak storm

scientists have observed more freak waves

having unusual physical development

a freak red cabbage with side shoots coming from the leaves

become very alarmed, angry, or emotional

when I saw the plan I just freaked

I think he would freak if somebody lifted the phone and suggested that

fleck or streak randomly

the white pink and the pansy freaked with jet