0 in the past, an event at which the public came to look at people and animals that had not developed normally:
Snake was taken in as a family member after the first-string members when they freed him from a traveling freak show.
It is the first of its kind, a traveling comedy and lifestyle festival with 2 stages and a full concourse of freak shows, psychics, roving performers and much more.
Vaudeville developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque.
By the same token, unhappy marriages are exhibited in a kind of freak show.
Appropriately enough, both the monstrosities and the curiosities, both the unhappy and the happy couples are put on display, in a kind of freak show or curio cabinet, respectively.
The children then perform in a humiliating freak show.
It became a freak show where guests seek their 15 minutes of fame through discussion and demonstrations of deviant behavior.
The van and bikers pull over at an old broken down freak show.