Oddball

Word ODDBALL
Character 7
Hyphenation odd ball
Pronunciations /ˈɑːdˌbɔl/

Definitions and meanings of "Oddball"

What do we mean by oddball?

A person regarded as eccentric. noun

A person with an unusual or odd personality; an eccentric person. noun

Anything unusual in its class. noun

Eccentric; very unusual; strange; bizarre. adjective

An eccentric or unusual person. noun

Exotic, not mainstream, such as an oddball word or an oddball computer program. adjective

A person with an unusual or odd personality noun

An eccentric or unusual person.

A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.

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The word "oddball" in example sentences

Adding, what I call oddball ornaments to my Christmas tree, really has nothing to do with the fact that I have a child. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But some of the biggest, savviest survivors hole up right under our noses, in oddball places we tend to overlook. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She's still the same old Tina who is obsessed with finding the humor in oddball, everyday things, Carlock says. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But what do you call the oddball in a family of "black sheep?" ❋ Unknown (2006)

I've been working hard for a while trying to figure his place out - he's really the "oddball" - he doesn't really FIT with any group & he's always been an anomaly in the show's space/time... ❋ Unknown (2009)

If attention is responsible for this effect, a more emotionally stirring "oddball" - like a guy pointing a gun at you, which tests have shown is much more salient than a flower-should seem to stay on the screen even longer. ❋ Popular Science (2010)

Lembit is frequently described as an 'oddball' - which is code for 'deeply weird'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Where their debut looked to the KLF, Surfing the Void's psychonautical vocabulary recalls another oddball early 90s dance act, the Shamen, who infiltrated the top 10 with talk of a "shamanic, anarchistic, archaic revival" in the days when trance acts played clubs with names like Megatripolis and expounded on the mystical importance of the number ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are still plenty of people who use the Craft, as Masons like to call their oddball institution, as the perfect inkblot onto which they can project their fantasies of organized wickedness, whatever those happen to be. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Max Romeo's trippy take on "Fixing a Hole" recalls the oddball energy of the previous Easy Star albums: the extended dub outro hits the mark while leaving a mark. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Three of four emulations match very closely: the oddball is the Scotland speleothem, where, as noted before, Trouet has almost certainly used the detrended version, said by Andy Baker to be an incorrect version. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He recalled oddball stories that ranged from a weekly paper running a contest celebrating the "first legitimate baby of the year" to a couple who were married nine weeks after the man shot the woman in the head several times at a drive-in theater.

Do I merit the title "oddball" simply because I have chosen act on my desire for change. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You have to wonder what the point is in the BNP urging its admittedly 'oddball' and illiterate members not to set up official party blogs in the run-up to this year's European elections when the party's leader is quite clearly a nutter himself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He comes to a liberal blog with advocates of health care reform and thus proposes some kind of oddball plan that cuts public sector salaries as the funding mechanism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The function of "oddball" items, whether CDs or vegetables, is to create demand for the "mainstream" items. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hannon doesn't worry about labels; he's happy with his position as an "oddball" of the music scene. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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