(informal, intransitive) To react with extreme anger or fear, to the extent that one loses one's composure or behaves irrationally.
The writing on the wall was noticeable the moment Nadella and Huang started to publicly freak out about public adoption not being where it should be. The whole Wild West era of just saying shit is over.
That feeling where you go looking for your notes, can't find it, freak out for a minute, and then realize you filed them in the wrong place cause your entire filing system on your computer is crap. Yup. That happened.…
(informal, intransitive) To react with extreme anger or fear, to the extent that one loses one's composure or behaves irrationally.
“any.run/report/f2e57... and my fathers name being Fred funk, means this would freak out and possibly be targeting anyone @nyulaw.bsky.social that was looking into his death with me”
“♪ #nowplaying All I need - Bret McKenzie (Freak out city - 2025) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip”
“It is a theoretical question. If they say: “no because he has been president for 2 terms”, then the next question is: “why won’t you say Trump can’t run in 2028”. Also, Obama should say he is thinking of running, that would really freak out the Republicans.”
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My dad would freak out. And not in a good way.
(informal, transitive) To scare or unnerve someone.
Jimmy'll come in off the road, you won't be there, he'll freak out and call you a hundred thousand times...
“The writing on the wall was noticeable the moment Nadella and Huang started to publicly freak out about public adoption not being where it should be. The whole Wild West era of just saying shit is over.”
“That feeling where you go looking for your notes, can't find it, freak out for a minute, and then realize you filed them in the wrong place cause your entire filing system on your computer is crap. Yup. That happened. #writingcommunity #indieauthor.”
“My dad would freak out. And not in a good way.”
“ETF inflows + volatility = everyone's favorite combo to freak out about 👀”
“It was so funny seeing my friend freak out after seeing Alastor!!🤣🤣🤣”
(dated, _, slang) A negative or unpleasant experience with LSD or another psychedelic drug.