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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oddball
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Growing up, most of the other kids considered me an oddball.
▪ Most of my family's OK, but my brother's a bit of an oddball.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Its one wart, if you could call it that, is its oddball control layout.
▪ Least of all when he is a bad-skinned, ginger-haired, balaclava-wearing oddball reeking of antiseptic.
▪ Nerds, oddballs and the tragically under-medicated.
▪ She understands the oddball perspectives that some viewers have.
▪ Snotlings are an oddball troop type with more to recommend them than their profiles might suggest.
▪ So what was it about these two that made them freaks and oddballs?
▪ You give too much publicity to radical oddballs....
The Collaborative International Dictionary
oddball

oddball \odd"ball`\ ([o^]d"b[add]l`), n.

  1. A person with an unusual or odd personality; an eccentric person. [informal]

    Syn: eccentric, eccentric person, geek.

  2. Hence: Anything unusual in its class.

    Pluto is an oddball among its eight sister planets. It's the smallest in both size and mass, and has the most elliptical orbit. It moves in a plane tilted markedly away from the other planets' orbits. Moreover, Pluto is the only planet made almost entirely of ice.
    --Ron Cohen (Science News, Feb. 27, 1999, p. 139)

oddball

oddball \odd"ball`\ ([o^]d"b[add]l`), a. Eccentric; very unusual; strange; bizarre; as, an oddball request. [informal]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oddball

"eccentric or unconventional person," 1948, from odd + ball (n.1). Earlier (1946) as an adjective, used by aviators.

Wiktionary
oddball

a. exotic, not mainstream, such as an oddball word or an oddball computer program. n. An eccentric or unusual person.

WordNet
oddball

n. a person with an unusual or odd personality [syn: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek]

Wikipedia
Oddball

Oddball, Oddballs, or Odd Ball may refer to:

  • Odd Ball (comic strip), a British comic strip
  • Oddball (comics), Marvel supervillain
  • Oddball (film), a 2015 Australian film
  • Oddballs, a British comedy troupe
  • Oddballs (album), 2000 album by Frank Black
  • Oddball (102 Dalmatians), a spotless dalmatian puppy in the film 102 Dalmatians
  • Oddball, eccentric tank commander played by Donald Sutherland in the film Kelly's Heroes
  • Oddballs, 1993 collection of short stories by children's author William Sleator
  • Oddball, a segment on the MSNBC show Countdown with Keith Olbermann
  • Oddball, a type of trivia question featured in the boardgame Brain Chain
Oddball (comics)

Oddball is the name of two supervillains in Marvel Comics.

Oddball (film)

Oddball (extended to Oddball and the Penguins in some regions) is a 2015 Australian family film directed by Stuart McDonald. It was released in September 2015 and stars Shane Jacobson, Coco Jack Gillies, Sarah Snook and Alan Tudyk. It is based on a true story.

Usage examples of "oddball".

Not quite as geekish as his friend Jeff had been before the Ring of Fire deposited their hometown in seventeenth-century Germany, but still something of an oddball in rural West Virginia.

And I would expect marble to be kept not in some unsupervised encampment full of oddball hawkers and interlopers, but safe in the well-fenced site depot.

On Jaycee, Mellanie thought it made him look a lot more worn down than his actual fifty-one years, like some embarrassingly oddball bachelor uncle.

Dooly contributed oddball tales concerning the doings of his old grandfather, most of which the linkmen seemed to take pretty much at face value.

Billy uses his poverty to camouflage another fact, that he wants these oddballs more than the studs he cannot afford.

Baseball nourishes eccentricity and big league bullpens have seen their share of self-consciously colorful oddballs.

The bandits were a mixed lot of oddballs with little in common, Amber learned, and she desperately hoped to exploit that flaw and somehow escape.

You could be sampling oddball drugs in Crashlanding or looking for Mist Demons on Plateau.

This was highly unusual, and I feared he would tell me that my burglar alarm had been going half the night or yet one more oddball had tried to drive through to see if I was at home.

I had nothing else on my mind but a couple of oddballs down the way who were dead ringers for a couple of oddballs who were hanging around last time I came out.

Other lessons in this series include Shoplifting, Beating People Up, Picking Locks, Climbing Trees, Driving, Housebreaking, Dumpster Diving, and How to Use Oddball Things like Venetian Blinds and Garbage Can Lids as Weapons.

Ostensibly a survey of those oddball large-scale British garden-decorations, but theres something else coded here, some urgent subcutaneous message about landscape and genius loci.

In this case at least, the Well's oddball sense of humorsome sort of reflection, probably, of an early puckish programmer had simply made the outside match what was already there inside.

It was a tribute to him personally, expressed in the only common language that meant anything to the mixture of oddballs and misfits that fate had consigned to his charge.

The only exception was an oddball physical culture enthusiast who always drank two quarts of milk for lunch.