oddball

[od-bawl] Origin

odd·ball

[od-bawl] Informal.
noun
1.
a person or thing that is atypical, bizarre, eccentric, or nonconforming, especially one having beliefs that are unusual but harmless.
adjective
2.
whimsically free-spirited; eccentric; atypical: an oddball scheme.

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Oddball is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1940–45, Americanism; odd + ball1
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oddball (ˈɒdˌbɔːl)
 
n
1.  odd bod, Also called: odd fish a strange or eccentric person
 
adj
2.  strange or peculiar

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oddball
"eccentric or unconventional person," 1948, from odd + ball (n.).
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oddball definition


  1. n.
    an eccentric person. : Tom is sure an oddball. He ordered a pineapple and strawberry milkshake.
  2. mod.
    strange; peculiar. : Your oddball ideas have cost us too much money.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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