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oddball
[ od-bawl ]
noun
- a person or thing that is atypical, bizarre, eccentric, or nonconforming, especially one having beliefs that are unusual but harmless.
adjective
- whimsically free-spirited; eccentric; atypical:
an oddball scheme.
oddball
/ ˈɒˌɔː /
noun
- Also calledodd bododd fish a strange or eccentric person
adjective
- strange or peculiar
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
They wind up getting cast, under strained dramatic circumstances, in the school musical, and a romance of sensitive oddballs blossoms.
As a result, artists, small-business owners and residents are creating their own iterations, guided by their niche interests and oddball senses of humor.
We can, however, say that being a freak is not the same as being an eccentric or an oddball.
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.
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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