Definition of oddball
: one that is eccentric
oddball
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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
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Many of those Cambrian oddballs actually did survive, and, curiously, there may not have been a Cambrian mass extinction, after all.
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1948
First Known Use of oddball
1948
ODDBALL Defined for English Language Learners
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: a person who behaves in strange or unusual ways
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: a person who behaves strangely
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