ODDBALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oddball mean? 

• ODDBALL (noun)
  The noun ODDBALL has 1 sense:

1. a person with an unusual or odd personality

  Familiarity information: ODDBALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ODDBALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person with an unusual or odd personality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

eccentric; eccentric person; flake; geek; oddball

Hypernyms ("oddball" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oddball"):

crackpot; crank; fruitcake; nut; nut case; screwball (a whimsically eccentric person)

nutter; wacko; whacko (a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad)

 Context examples 

Even the globular clusters are oddballs: they are twice as large as typical stellar groupings seen in other galaxies.

(Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy, NASA)

At first, hot Jupiters were considered oddballs, since we don't have anything like them in our own solar system.

(Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters', NASA)

However, it appears that Kepler-51 d, which is farther from the star, will continue to be a low-density oddball planet, though it will both shrink and lose some small amount of atmosphere.

('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)

The oddball exoplanet, called WASP-12b, is one of a class of so-called "hot Jupiters," gigantic, gaseous planets that orbit very close to their host star and are heated to extreme temperatures.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)

A multinational team of scientists led by Antoine Strugarek of the University of Montreal announced the Sun may not be the cosmic oddball amongst solar-type stars some astronomers believe it to be.

(Sun's mood swings not so strange after all, Wikinews)

So even among this unusual class of galaxy, NGC 1052-DF2 is an oddball.

(Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy, NASA)