Definition of oddball
: one that is eccentric
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Examples of oddball in a Sentence
He used to be a real oddball back in high school.
she's known as the office oddball
Recent Examples of oddball from the Web
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South Street Cinema, a new 40-seat theater showing everything from classic movies to oddball flicks, will host vendors offering up their own retro media for sale: tapes, DVDs, vinyl, books, art, and more will be available.
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More than a week in advance, the European model predicted an oddball westward jog in Sandy’s track, whereas the American model arced it eastward and harmlessly away from the East Coast.
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The 9,000-square-foot building that houses the East Bay’s largest collection of oddball curios has been sold.
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Uncle Bob, a chain-smoking, good-natured, long-haired oddball who lived a hermit existence in California.
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Duchamp underscored the deliberateness of his visual trickery by removing a piece of the picture’s frame — telling, perhaps, for the oddball framing devices DeLap was soon making.
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The Dutch Republic was an oddball in the 17th-century world.
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Laufer’s humor emanates ever-so-credibly from within these oddballs.
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The documentary doesn’t just cover blackness, queerness and feeling like an oddball.
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First Known Use of oddball
1948
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Definition of oddball for English Language Learners
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: a person who behaves in strange or unusual ways
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Definition of oddball for Students
: a person who behaves strangely
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