Meaning & use

Freaky

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Strange, bizarre, or unsettling in a way that is unexpected or unnatural.

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It was freaky how the fortune teller knew details about my past.

We watched a freaky horror movie that gave everyone nightmares.

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An informal word popularized in the 1960s counterculture, related to 'freak' in the sense of something unusual or abnormal.

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