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character, codger, crack, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, eccentric, flake, fruitcake, head case, kook, nut, nutcase, nutter [British slang], oddity, original, quiz, screwball, weirdo, zany
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Customers are not typically loyal to any particular brand, so fast-food companies resort to oddball, sometimes outlandish marketing tactics or crazy food creations to draw in customers. — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, "Burger King will sell upside-down Whoppers to celebrate 'Stranger Things'," 13 June 2019 Having them star in an oddball, ever-mutating series has made a weird sort of sense. — Keith Phipps, The Verge, "In Dark Phoenix, the X-Men franchise is still Marvel’s weird, mutant cinematic stepchild," 5 June 2019 Like the oddball Cannon Lake processor that's built on 10nm and shipping in limited quantities, Sunny Cove includes support for AVX-512 instructions. — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, "Intel unveils a new architecture for 2019: Sunny Cove," 12 Dec. 2018 Among the 10 moons recently confirmed, the team is calling one an 'oddball' because of its unusual orbit: backwards from the dozens of others. — Emiliano Rodriguez Mega, The Seattle Times, "Jupiter’s moon count reaches 79, including tiny ‘oddball’," 17 July 2018 This oddball—nicknamed Valetudo for the Roman goddess of health and hygiene, one of Jupiter's great-granddaughters—is possibly Jupiter's smallest moon, less than a kilometer in diameter. — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, "12 New Moons of Jupiter Discovered," 17 July 2018 In stark contrast to his oddball onscreen persona, Gunn is suave and handsome, and carries himself with quiet confidence. — Diana Bruk, Country Living, "This is What the Cast of "Gilmore Girls" is Like in Real Life," 24 Oct. 2016 Is the oddball who moved in next door (Rupert Friend as the fictional Ernest Donovan), in the dead of night, a threat? — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, "‘Strange Angel’: It's rocket science with occult twist," 12 June 2018 The list of famous middle children includes figures as diverse as Warren Buffett and Jennifer Lopez, but for the most part, middles are reliably cast in the culture as oddballs, outcasts, and misfits. — Adam Sternbergh, The Cut, "The Extinction of the Middle Child," 11 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'oddball.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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