weirdo

noun \ ˈwir-(ˌ)dō \

|Updated on: 12 Jun 2018

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Definition of weirdo

plural weirdos

: a person who is extraordinarily strange or eccentric

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one of those weirdos that the rest of the town always seemed to be talking about

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Which leaves us no other choice but to conclude that Pruitt is a weirdo who actively seeks out mattresses slept on by strangers.

— bess levin, The Hive, "Why Is Trump’s Most Corrupt Minion Obsessed with Used Mattresses?," 4 June 2018
In a new paper led by Plymouth University’s Matt Telfer, researchers working on the images from the New Horizons probe add another weirdo to the list of dune-bearing worlds—the dwarf planet Pluto.

— scott k. johnson, Ars Technica, "Frozen Pluto has wind-blown dunes made of methane sand," 31 May 2018
This is of interest mainly to golf weirdos such as myself.

— paul daugherty, Cincinnati.com, "Paul Daugherty: If you're 27 or younger, how do you rate Cincinnati's sports scene?," 1 May 2018
Wow, what performance art, this guy is a weirdo or wacko,’ hey, that’s fine, too.

— justin barrasso, SI.com, "Mauro Ranallo on ‘Bipolar Rock N Roller’ Documentary: ‘I Wanted It to Be Difficult to Watch’," 25 May 2018
The funniest things in an environment like Twitter tend to toy with that, imitating either casual speech or post-literate weirdos who don’t understand punctuation.

— nitsuh abebe, New York Times, "New Sentences: From a Tweet by Seamas O’Reilly," 16 May 2018
True, Bolton was a vocal supporter of the Iraq War, but that hardly makes him a weirdo.

— chicagotribune.com, "Welcome to the Dick Cheney administration," 23 Mar. 2018
In this future, the weirdos dress like leather punks or David Bowie lookalikes, and the geodesic headgear of memory-wipers might be purchased at Urban Outfitters.

— spencer kornhaber, The Atlantic, "The Cheerful Radicalism of Janelle Monáe," 28 Apr. 2018
But in the play Higgins is a shut-in weirdo who obsesses about language, and it’s Eliza who brings him into the world emotionally.

— alex witchel, Town & Country, "A New Broadway Revival of My Fair Lady Sees Eliza Fall In Love With Herself," 20 Apr. 2018

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First Known Use of weirdo

circa 1955

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weirdo Synonyms

Synonyms

character, codger, crack, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, eccentric, flake, kook, nut, oddball, oddity, screwball, zany;

Near Antonyms

conformer, conformist, follower, sheep;

coot, geezer;

curio, rarity;

freak;

Phrases

odd duck, piece of work;

weirdo

adjective

Definition of weirdo

: strange, weird

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he saw some weirdo lights in the sky and immediately concluded that it had to be a UFO

First Known Use of weirdo

1962

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weirdo

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Definition of weirdo for English Language Learners

: a strange or unusual person

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noun \ ˈwir-dō \

Definition of weirdo for Students

plural weirdos

: a very strange person

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