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oddball
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
oddball \odd"ball`\ ([o^]d"b[add]l`), n.
1. A person with an unusual or odd personality; an eccentric
person. [informal]
Syn: eccentric, eccentric person, geek.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. Hence: Anything unusual in its class.
[PJC]
Pluto is an oddball among its eight sister planets.
It's the smallest in both size and mass, and has the
most elliptical orbit. It moves in a plane tilted
markedly away from the other planets' orbits.
Moreover, Pluto is the only planet made almost
entirely of ice. --Ron Cohen
(Science News,
Feb. 27, 1999,
p. 139)
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
oddball \odd"ball`\ ([o^]d"b[add]l`), a. Eccentric; very unusual; strange; bizarre; as, an oddball request. [informal] [PJC]
