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Jesus freak

noun

, Informal: Usually Disparaging and Offensive.
  1. a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people Jesus people originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
  2. a Christian with an intense enthusiasm for Jesus Christ and His teachings.


Jesus freak

noun

  1. informal.
    a member of any of various Christian groups that combine a hippy communal way of life with zealous evangelicalism


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Origin of Jesus freak1

First recorded in 1970–75

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