oddball
oddball
Definition
☆ odd·ball (äd′bôl′)
adjective
Slang strange or unconventional
oddball
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: The shop has a great range of fish currently available including several oddball and rare species.
- have: We have a few oddballs ( not necessarily excluding myself!
Preposition: over
- law: Related: Attorney General Ruddock is Oddball over anti-terrorist laws!
Adjective modifier
- few: We have a few oddballs ( not necessarily excluding myself!
- other: The mainstream might have abandoned Lynch in favor of other oddballs du jour, but he still has something to say.
- several: Included in their list are several oddballs such as Dragon gobies, Black arowana and butterfly fish.
- occasional: These days I just hear the occasional oddball mentioning white rabbits - why is that?
Modifies a noun
- comedy: Itâs an enjoyable, if oddball comedy that is terrifically well cast.
- character: He used to work in the magazine business in New York and was accustomed to oddball characters.
- card: So requireing them to be enabled may prevent some people ( mostly with older or oddball video cards ) from playing.
- family: I suppose most recently I've heard the Trachtenberg Family Slide Show [ oddball American family including twelve year old daughter on piano ] .
- paradigm: The stimuli were presented in passive oddball paradigm to native English speakers whose brain activity was simultaneously recorded using 64-channel EEG set-up.
- Irishman: An oddball Irishman with a definite twinkle, his Edinburgh Fringe shows are critically acclaimed sell-outs.
Modifying Another Word
- genuinely: Once in a while you find something genuinely oddball, a sort of trove, an undreamt-of curiosity.
Noun used with modifier
- insect: Has swept across another insect oddball too tired to.
Browse dictionary entries near oddball
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