freak

1. (dated outside certain expressions) Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.Examples: "The two-headed calf was a freak."; "freak of nature, freak of the weather, freak of the imagination"; "[H]aving a dinner-party at his rooms to entertain some friends from London, nothing would satisfy Mr. Foker but painting Mr. Buck’s door vermilion, in which freak he was caught by the proctors …"Synonyms: anomaly, outlier, aberrant, abnormality, anomaly, deviance, deviant, farlie

2. (slang, chiefly derogatory) A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.Examples: "Gentrification often starts with the artists, revolutionaries, freaks, transfolks, and queers (what I would call my people) moving into poor neighborhoods inhabited by people of color."Synonyms: odd duck, weirdo, bizarro, coot, crackpot, crank, eccentric, freakderogatoryslang

3. (bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (120 kg).

4. (informal, sometimes endearing) A very sexually perverse individual.Examples: "She's a freak in the sheets!"Synonyms: horn dog, hypersexual, pervert, donjuanist, erotomaniac, freak, fuckster, hornballendearinginformalsometimes

5. (African-American Vernacular) A wild dance.Examples: "Get your freak on."

6. (dated) A sudden change of mind.Examples: "And then, with heart more hard than stone, He pick'd my marrow from the bone. To vex me more, he took a freak To slit my tongue and make me speak: But, that which wonderful appears, I speak to eyes, and not to ears."; "It would be a great comfort to Mr. Weston, as he grew older—and even Mr. Weston might be growing older ten years hence—to have his fireside enlivened by the sports and the nonsense, the freaks and the fancies of a child never banished from home;"Synonyms: whim, vagary, caprice, fancy, boutade, caprice, capriccio, conceitdated