Definition of freak show
: an exhibition (such as a sideshow) featuring freaks of nature
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As Huang reveals, the twins were much more than a freak show spectacle — strivers, showmen and slaveholders who settled in rural North Carolina, country squires who loved to hunt and fish.
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Pick your poison—a cult, a coven, a murder house, a freak show?
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The artist now is trying to recapture his experiences as a boy in Long Beach, Calif., when circuses and freak shows came to town.
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His era was an unprecedented freak show for the 450-foot home run.
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Now, the Phantom runs a circus-like freak show on New York’s Coney Island.
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Around a corner, a visitor comes face-to-face with artifacts from a freak show that was part of the Sells-Floto Circus a century ago.
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The thrill never dies Finding actors who could sing opera tinged with rock and fill out a freak show was an especially fun nightmare.
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Nunberg's tour de force evoked the many cable news freak shows from Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser now deeply embroiled in The Russian Connection.
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First Known Use of freak show
1887
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