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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Jesus freak¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Then a teenager and a self-described “Jesus freak,” he’d come to Ocean City, N.J., to attend a Youth for Christ conference.

From New York Times

“She’s that ‘Jesus freak,’” Washington said of Jess.

From Washington Post

A skittish electronic beat collides with a low, morose guitar riff on Blood Orange’s “Jesus Freak Lighter” — which is to say it’s a little bit New Order, a little bit Joy Division.

From New York Times

“Jesus Freak Lighter,” though, is all Hynes, fitting since it conjures a mood of digital-era solitude: “Got carried away,” he sings with a kind of muffled melancholy, “Living in my head, photo fantasy.”

From New York Times

Growing up in rural Washington state — not far from where she lives now — she was poor, she was a Jesus freak, she was a high school dropout and she was beginning to think that she was gay, and all of that added up to a tendency to be misread by the outside world.

From New York Times