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Wiktionary

  1. v. 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, to suffer an unexpected and severe bad reaction from the recreational use of a psychotropic - usually hallucinogenic - drug,
  2. v. slang, transitive To scare someone.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. lose one's nerve
  2. n. a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug)

Etymologies

  1. Coined in the Mothers of Invention album Freak Out. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “You ain’t gonna go to my aunt’s house to freak out an eightysomething-year-old woman, and I’m not helping you blow up innocent people here for twelve strands of light or whatever you were babbling about!”

    Simon & Schuster: Surrender the Dark

  • “I tried not to freak out too badly, even though under Stephanie Pierce’s name it said we needed to buy ten spiral notebooks.”

    Simon & Schuster: THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON

  • “And the surprise glimpse of well-filled panties can freak out an army.”

    Zombie Lover

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  1. panic
  1. hallucination
  1. delusion

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