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freak show

noun
  1. a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
  2. any ludicrous, bizarre, or dehumanizing occasion, function, performance, etc.; grotesque, circuslike event: endless interviews and auditions that became a ridiculous freak show.
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Origin of freak show

First recorded in 1885–90
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