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oddball

[ od-bawl ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that is atypical, bizarre, eccentric, or nonconforming, especially one having beliefs that are unusual but harmless.


adjective

  1. whimsically free-spirited; eccentric; atypical:

    an oddball scheme.

oddball

/ ˈɒˌɔː /

noun

  1. Also calledodd bododd fish a strange or eccentric person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. strange or peculiar
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of oddball1

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45; odd + ball 1
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They wind up getting cast, under strained dramatic circumstances, in the school musical, and a romance of sensitive oddballs blossoms.

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As a result, artists, small-business owners and residents are creating their own iterations, guided by their niche interests and oddball senses of humor.

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We can, however, say that being a freak is not the same as being an eccentric or an oddball.

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Iris takes an oddball approach to acclimating her students to French: She extracts personal confessions from them in English, then writes wildly extrapolated versions of the French on index cards.

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Herbert wove a complicated universe with oddball technologies, bizarre competing factions and religions that are easier to digest over the methodical consumption of hundreds of pages.

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