oddball n : a person with an unusual or odd personality [syn: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek]

English

Etymology

From odd + ball

Noun

1. an eccentric or unusual person

Translations

Oddball, Oddballs, or Odd Ball may refer to:

In fiction:

• Odd Ball, character that appeared in the first edition of the British comic Whizzer and Chips.
• Odd Ball, clone commander in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
• Oddball, eccentric tank commander played by Donald Sutherland in the movie Kelly's Heroes.

In other fields:

• Oddball, a type of trivia question featured in the boardgame Brain Chain, where players must pick the one item (the oddball) that does not share a common characteristic with the other three items presented.
• Oddballs, UK comedy troupe.
• Oddballs, 1993 collection of short stories by children’s author William Sleator.
• Unidentified Flying Oddball, Disney’s movie adaptation of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
• Oddball, a segment of weird news on the MSNBC show Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
• Oddballs, a 1984 Canadian sex comedy film.
• Oddball is a multiplayer gametype in the Halo series of video games by Bungie Studios.
• Oddball (comics), a Marvel supervillain.

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