offbeats

Noun

offbeat (plural offbeats)

1. The beats not normally accented in a measure.
   • The congregation clapped along on the offbeat.
2. (figuratively, slang) An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.
   • No one dignified such offbeats by responding to their outcries. Today, the "knockers of progress" have become a force that cannot be ignored.1977, Lyle W. Dorsett, The Queen City: A History of Denver

   Synonyms:

   oddball, free spirit, heteroclite, individualist, nonconformist, outré, eccentric, deviant, deviate, maverick

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