Wiktionary
n. 1 In a group having an odd number of people, someone with the casting vote; an arbiter. (from 15th c.) 2 Someone who does odd jobs; an odd job man. (from 18th c.)
Wikipedia
The Odd Man is a fictional comic book hero created by Steve Ditko. The character was intended to first appear in Shade, the Changing Man #9 but instead first appeared in Detective Comics #487 in December 1979.
Odd Man may refer to:
- Odd Man (comics), a comic hero created by Steve Ditko
- The Odd Man, the first in a trilogy of police series produced in the 1960s by Granada TV
- Odd Man (film), a 1998 short film featuring Shon Greenblatt
Usage examples of "odd man".
Evidently I was not the first odd man that Chade had slipped into theirl ranks.
Evidently I was not the first odd man that Chade had slipped into their ranks.
So maybe, he slowly came to believe, he was someone more than odd man out in the family, something more than knuckle bait at the playground.
Years later he's the rather odd man in prison who stares at you, and then wants you to be his wife.
What had passed before was their odd man courtship, and now they were ready to copulate.
Lieutenant Guthrie Bagwell might have been able to take the slot, but EW was still the odd man out, and some people being assigned as EWOs didn’.