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English
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Noun
[edit]freak show (plural freak shows)
- An intentionally shocking exhibition of people with unusual characteristics, and which may include people who are gigantic, dwarfish, intersex, physically deformed or who have other extraordinary diseases, conditions and talents.
- 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- It only takes a little tweaking for the Simpsons’ home to become a full-on freak show, with Homer as its perpetually apoplectic main attraction.
- (slang, derogatory) A freakish person, or a group thereof.
- 2012, Kristen-Paige Madonia, Fingerprints of You:
- “Get out of here, you freak show,” Emmy said.
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