单词 | freak-out |
释义 | freak-outn. An intense emotional experience, a ‘rave-up’, esp. one resulting from the use of hallucinatory drugs. (Also in more trivial uses.) Quot. 1749, an isolated use, is better analysed as a use of the noun freak (sense 3) plus the verbal phr. to have out ‘to bring to a conclusion’ (cf. out adv. 7b). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [noun] > effects of hallucinatory drugs trip1959 freaking-out1965 acid trip1966 freak-out1966 head trip1967 tripping1968 turn-on1969 trippiness1976 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 198 She had had her freak out, and had pretty plentifully drowned her curiosity in a glut of pleasure.] 1966 Daily Tel. 10 Aug. 13/3 The tape-recorder picked up the horrifying moans and shrieks of one man who had made 33 pleasurable ‘trips’ with LSD and was encountering his first ‘freakout’ or bad LSD experience. 1967 Spectator 11 Aug. 158/1 This morning he had got in quick while the others were still half asleep from paper rounds or recovering from Sunday night freak-outs. 1968 L. Deighton Only when I Larf iv. 48 That helicopter trip is a futuristic freak-out. 1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 194 Mop (also called Freak-out)... Introduced in 1967 by the way-out young... A wild looking bush with curls, worn by both girls and boys. 1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 1/9 They give the impression ‘freak outs’ happen every week. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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