Noun: oddball 'ód,bol
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- A person with an unusual or odd personality
"they're a bunch of oddballs, but quite nice really";
- eccentric, flake [N. Amer, informal], geek [informal], dag [Austral, NZ, informal]
- Being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
"an oddball exaltation that was indefinable";
- strange, unusual
Derived forms: oddballs
See also: antic [archaic], crazy [informal], curious, eerie, eery, exotic, fantastic, fantastical, freaky [informal], funny, gothic, grotesque, odd, oddish, other, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum [Brit, informal], rummy [Brit, archaic, informal], singular, spooky [informal], weird
Encyclopedia: Oddball