oddball

IPA: ˈɑdbɔɫ

An eccentric or unusual person.
(neuroscience) A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.

Examples of "oddball" in Sentences

But what do you call the oddball in a family of "black sheep?"
Lembit is frequently described as an 'oddball' - which is code for 'deeply weird'.
She's still the same old Tina who is obsessed with finding the humor in oddball, everyday things, Carlock says.
But some of the biggest, savviest survivors hole up right under our noses, in oddball places we tend to overlook.
Adding, what I call oddball ornaments to my Christmas tree, really has nothing to do with the fact that I have a child.
I've been working hard for a while trying to figure his place out - he's really the "oddball" - he doesn't really FIT with any group & he's always been an anomaly in the show's space/time...
There are still plenty of people who use the Craft, as Masons like to call their oddball institution, as the perfect inkblot onto which they can project their fantasies of organized wickedness, whatever those happen to be.
If attention is responsible for this effect, a more emotionally stirring "oddball" - like a guy pointing a gun at you, which tests have shown is much more salient than a flower-should seem to stay on the screen even longer.
Where their debut looked to the KLF, Surfing the Void's psychonautical vocabulary recalls another oddball early 90s dance act, the Shamen, who infiltrated the top 10 with talk of a "shamanic, anarchistic, archaic revival" in the days when trance acts played clubs with names like Megatripolis and expounded on the mystical importance of the number