the.com/oddball
Not broken, just running on different software than everyone else.
means A person who behaves or thinks in noticeably unconventional ways, out of step with what's considered normal.
from A straightforward American coinage from 'odd' (strange, irregular) plus 'ball,' likely riffing off sports slang where a ball that doesn't roll true — wobbling off its expected line — gets singled out as 'odd.' By the mid-20th century it had rolled from describing strange objects to describing strange people, the human version of a ball that just won't go where you expect.
- origin
- 1940s American slang, baseball-adjacent
- implies
- harmless strangeness, not actual danger
- secret
- usually the most interesting person in the room