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freakout

[ freek-out ]

noun

  1. an act or instance of freaking out.
  2. a person who freaks out.


verb phrase

  1. to lose or cause to lose emotional control from extreme excitement, shock, fear, joy, despair, etc.:

    Seeing the dead body completely freaked him out.

  2. to enter into or cause a period of irrational behavior or emotional instability, especially under the influence of a drug:

    to be freaked out on LSD.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of freakout1

First recorded in 1965–70; noun use of verb phrase freak out (in the sense “to lose one's emotional control”
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Example Sentences

The Pennsylvania senator has said he's open to Trump’s expansionist plan to purchase Greenland, slamming colleagues for their “freakout” over the suggestion in a Fox News interview.

From Salon

Another parallel to today’s freakout about “wokeness”: None of these books seemed very interested in understanding “the politically correct.”

From Slate

Then there are the changes that feel closer to a Cronenbergian freakout: curiously dense new tufts of back hair, slightly sharper teeth, a body count of dead critters each morning on the doorstep.

“I wanted to make a show about a group of craftspeople who love movies and are good at doing this, who are trapped inside of this dysfunctional machine. And it’s about the end of something, a franchise going through a bit of a nervous breakdown, and all the people inside it having a collective freakout.”

However, Lauren Bradshaw of Fangirl Freakout said: "Emilia Pérez is a magnificent, genre-bending thrill ride that transcends the typical movie construct, breathing a fresh burst of excitement into the way we think about film."

From BBC

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