weird out

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weird out (third-person singular simple present weirds out, present participle weirding out, simple past and past participle weirded out)

  1. (slang, transitive) To make someone feel, by weirdness, uneasy or uncomfortable; to make one feel (that something is) weird.
    • 1996, Billy Bob Thornton, Sling Blade:
      I don't know why you're so weirded out. This is not San Quentin, it's just a nuthouse.
    • 2000, Tim Minear, Shawn Ryan, “Reunion”, in Angel, season 2, episode 10:
      Man, somehow that weirds me out more than the whole bloodsucking thing.
    • 2004, Adam Roberts, Swiftly, Night Shade Books, →ISBN, page 72:
      [] That's an unbearable thing for a parent to hear, my darling. Do you see?
      “You're weirding me out, ma. This whole conversation is weirding me out.”

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