Meaning:
A wildly irrational reaction or spell of behavior
Examples:
- That's the part where the researchers freak out.
- And the problem with that is that people freak out. People panic.
- Don't freak out, Pat.
- I'm starting to freak out. Tell me you're joking.
- You're going to freak out when I show you the chignon my hairdresser did for me.
- Except that then we freak out at the possibility that we've gotten something wrong.
- Traveling throughout Asia, I tended to freak out women in public restrooms.
- They'd completely freak out.
- There's others too: habitat loss is my favorite thing to freak out about in the middle of the night.
- And people immediately freak out about things about Ebola or smallpox, but the DNA from this organism is not infective.