as in weird
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
he saw some weirdo lights in the sky and immediately concluded that it had to be a UFO
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as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
one of those weirdos that the rest of the town always seemed to be talking about
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Recent Examples of weirdo
Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Oct. 2025
By comparison, his romantic rival Archie (Devon Bostick) is a weirdo, but a more believable one, and Bostick’s banter with Ferreira has a specific kind of romantic chemistry common to hyperintelligent, socially awkward nerds.
—Katie Rife, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2025
The fairy tale weirdo in me has no choice but to love the wolf with wolves for hands and feet.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025
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Adjective
Her timing has its origins in 1930s comedy, but also, perhaps, on some as-yet undiscovered, faraway planet: her lines spin out in woolly loops, and even if Alvy has the most cerebral quips, her comebacks always top them with their weirdo bravado.
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The comedian Tim Robinson seems to love playing obsessive weirdos.
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The then-unknown Michael Shannon, whose early career roles in Chicago were every bit as weird as this play, starred in that production.—
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But this year, due to weird scheduling, the BAFTA nods will come out on January 27, after the Oscar nominations.—
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Also, Joan Cusack plays an infamous local eccentric, and a fictional pop star shows up!—
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The logger and railsplitter occasionally encounters American eccentrics, like a chatty drifter prone to sporting bible verses and an old coot of a demolitions expert with a philosophical bent.—
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His work is marked by unusual, even bizarre, material choices that encrust spatial compositions reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s innovative open space plans.—
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Some unnamed Chicago bartender in the early 1880s had the improbable idea of taking a Whiskey Sour and adding a little red wine to the top, inventing in a bizarre flash of insightone of the great warm weather whiskey drinks of our time.—
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Gyles Brandreth, broadcaster, former MP and friend to Christopher Robin Milne, opened up about the man behind the character while chatting with Joe Sibilia on Nostalgia Tonight.—
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That idea of shiny surfaces is key to Cathy’s character and costumes.—
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The sounds had become a strange new normal for the diverse Central neighborhood.—
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And there was a strange preoccupation with running out of time, even though the show ended a good 15 minutes early as if the performers didn’t understand their own timeline.—
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This wacko crew was one of the greatest things in the history of television.—
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His search takes him to a wacko cult in the desert run by a scamster, and that of course puts the sheriff in deadly danger.—
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To the contrary, though the film is frequently funny, Brewer takes their ambitions and reversals seriously.—
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Hockey is a funny game sometimes.—
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In the meantime, the team continues to search for similar objects to determine whether Cloud-9 is an oddball or part of a larger cohort of relics.—
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Eight years later, Russ makes a last-chance gambit to resurrect his football dreams by disguising himself as Chad Powers, a talented oddball who walks on to the struggling South Georgia Catfish team.—
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“Weirdo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weirdo. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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