Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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(Collegiate.) Is there a frat party
tonight? Frat life is not for me.

frat-rat[“frAtrAt] n. a member of a frater-
nity. (Collegiate.) The frat-rats are hav-
ing a rally tonight. Is Frank a frat-rat,
or is he independent?


freak daddyn. a good-looking male. 
Tony is a real freak daddy, and I intend to
get him to take me out. Jane wants to get
her hands on the freak daddy in her his-
tory class.


freaked (out) 1. mod. shocked; disori-
ented. (Perhaps from drugs or alcohol.)
I was too freaked out to reply. Man,
was I freaked. 2. mod. tired out; ex-
hausted. I’m too freaked out to go on
without some rest. The chick is really
freaked. Let her rest.


freaker 1. n. an incident that causes some-
one to freak (out). (Collegiate.) Wasn’t
that weird? A real freaker. Did you see
that near miss? What a freaker! 2. n. a
freaked (out) person. (Collegiate.) 
Some poor freaker sat in the corner and
rocked. Who’s the freaker in the corner?


freakingmod. damned. (Euphemistic for
fucking. Usually objectionable.) Get
your freaking socks off my bed. What is
this freaking mess on my plate?


freak mommyn. a good-looking female. 
Wendy, you are a freak mommy, and I
want to get to know you better. Sally is
such a freak mommy. My eyes just water!


freak (out) 1. in. to panic; to lose control.
I was so frightened, I thought I would
freak. Come on, relax. Don’t freak out.



  1. n. a bad drug experience; a psychotic
    reaction to the drug LSD. (Drugs. Usually
    freak-outor freakout.) The poor kid
    had a freak-out and never really recovered.
    Some of them get turned off to drugs
    by a really good freakout. 3. n. a wild
    party of any type; any exciting happen-
    ing. (Usually freak-outor freakout.) 
    There is a big freak-out at Freddy’s joint
    tonight. What a frantic freakout! 4. n.
    a freaked (out) person. (Usually freak-
    outor freakout.) Some poor freak-out
    sat in the corner and rocked. Who’s the
    freakout in the corner?


freak someone outtv. to shock or disori-
ent someone.  The whole business
freaked me out. TI didn’t mean to freak
out everybody with the bad news.
freakymod. strange; eccentric. I get a
freaky feeling whenever I hear that music.
That’s really freaky. What a freaky
movie.
free base and (free)base 1. n. a smok-
able, pure extract of cocaine. Bart is
real big on free base. Sam likes base, too.


  1. in. to smoke a pure extract of cocaine.
    Rocko has never freebased in his life. 
    Rocko won’t base, smoke, or anything.
    (free)baseGo to free base.
    free base partyn. a gathering where free
    base is used. (Drugs.) Bart has a free
    base party about once a week. The cops
    broke up a free base party in Beverly Hills.
    free-basern. a user offree base. (Drugs.)
    Of course Bart is a free-baser! What
    doesn’t he do? Some of these free-basers
    have heart attacks.
    free-basing and baseballing; basingn.
    using free base as a recreational drug.
    (Drugs.) Rocko refuses to try free-bas-
    ing. He saw what basing did to his
    brother.
    freebeeGo to freebie.
    freebie and freebee; freeby[“fribi] n.
    something given away free. They gave
    me a freebie with my purchase. I expect
    a freebee when I spend a lot of money like
    that.
    free for all and free-for-alln. a brawl; a
    general fight. A free for all started on
    the beach over near the concession stand.
    The cops broke up the free-for-all.
    freeloadin. to sponge off someone else; to
    eat and drink at someone else’s expense;
    to live off someone else. Don’t come
    around here and expect to freeload. My
    brother-in-law has been freeloading at our
    house for months.
    freeloadern. someone who eats and drinks
    at someone else’s expense; a parasitic per-
    son. Ken is sort of a freeloader, but he’s
    a lot of fun anyway. There are a lot of


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