freak out
English
Noun
freak out (plural freak outs)
- (slang, 1960s counterculture) A positive experience with LSD or other psychedelic drug; (antonym) bummer, bum trip.
Verb
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, 1960's countercultural term meaning to have a positive reaction or experience from the recreational, therapeutic or edificational use of a psychotropic – usually hallucinogenic or psychedelic – 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)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- 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.
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Synonyms
- (react with extreme anger or fear): set one's hair on fire
Antonyms
- (drugs): bum out
Translations
react with anger or fear
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scare someone
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