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freak out

freak out noun: a negative or unpleasant experience with LSD or another psychedelic drug.

Noun

freak out (plural freak outs)

  1. (dated, slang) A negative or unpleasant experience with LSD or another psychedelic drug.
    Antonyms:
    bummer, bum trip

Verb

freak out (third-person singular simple present freaks out, present participle freaking out, simple past and past participle freaked out)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To react with extreme anger or fear, to the extent that one loses one's composure or behaves irrationally.
    • When Peter saw the nail poking up through his foot, he freaked out and started hyperventilating.
    • Jimmy'll come in off the road, you won't be there, he'll freak out and call you a hundred thousand times...1991, Callie Khouri, Thelma & Louise
    Antonyms:
    bum out
  2. (informal, transitive) To scare or unnerve someone.
    • Don't take off your shirt when working behind the counter. You'll freak the customers out.
    • 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)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  3. (informal, intransitive) To be upset or nervous; to be scared or unnerved.
  4. (informal, intransitive) To adopt an unconventional (especially countercultural) persona or appearance.
    • On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express CREATIVELY his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.1966, Frank Zappa, “Freak Out! liner notes”, in Freak Out!
    • Formed in the heart of the British Invasion in 1964 as the Nevadas, the Jacks decided to freak out and grow their hair long.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 213

freak out meaning in Urdu, Arabic and Vietnamese

freak out in Urdu

خوف, غصے سے چِلانا

freak out in Arabic

react with anger or fear
خرج عن طوره

freak out in Vietnamese

react with anger or fear
hoảng loạn

Synonyms of freak out

Antonyms

Forms of freak out

Noun
pluralfreak outs
Verb
third-person singular presentfreaks out
present participlefreaking out
past participlefreaked out
pastfreaked out

Origin of freak out

From freak + out. Countercultural slang, originally referring to a positive reaction or experience from the use of a psychotropic, usually a hallucinogenic or psychedelic drug. First use appears c. 1966 in several newspapers, particularly in the Independent (Long Beach, California).

Questions about freak out

What does freak out mean?
Freak out means a negative or unpleasant experience with LSD or another psychedelic drug.
What is freak out in Urdu?
Freak out in Urdu is خوف, غصے سے چِلانا. See Freak out meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is freak out?
Freak out can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of freak out?
The plural of freak out is freak outs.

Words near freak out in the dictionary

  1. freak flags
  2. freak folk
  3. freak of nature
  4. freak off
  5. freak offs
  6. freak out
  7. freak outs
  8. freak show
  9. freak shows
  10. freak wave
  11. freak waves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: freak out (page history and authors); freak out (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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