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oddballodd‧ball /ˈɒdbɔːl $ ˈɑːdbɒːl/ noun [countable] informal   - 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.
- 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...
a strange person► weirdo informal someone who is very strange in an unpleasant and sometimes threatening way: · There's a weirdo who stands in front of the store and talks to himself.· When I travel by underground I always seem to end up sitting next to some weirdo. ► oddball informal a strange person: · Most of my family's OK, but my brother's a bit of an oddball.· Growing up, most of the other kids considered me an oddball. ► freak informal a very strange person, especially one who behaves oddly and has strange ideas: · The guy is probably just some freak who saw her on TV and decided he loves her.control/neat/fast food etc freak: · Her husband's a control freak - he won't let her leave the house without him. ► crank British someone who other people think is strange, especially because they have beliefs, aims, or habits that are thought to be very unusual or too extreme: · Vegetarians were once regarded as cranks.· Call me a crank, but I think the world was a lot better before mobile phones came along. someone who behaves in a strange or unusual way SYN eccentric—oddball adjective:  a rather oddball sense of humour |