oddballs

Noun

oddball (plural oddballs)

1. An eccentric or unusual person.
   • Miss Quinn thought that Oswald spoke Russian well in view of his lack of formal training; she found the evening uninteresting. Donovan, with whom she had a date later, testified that she told him that Oswald was “kind of an oddball.”1964, Earl Warren et al., Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, page 685

   Synonyms:

   kook

2. A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.

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