odd man out

noun

someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group

• Syn: ↑kook, ↑odd fellow, ↑odd fish, ↑queer bird, ↑queer duck

• Derivationally related forms: ↑kooky (for: ↑kook)

• Hypernyms: ↑anomaly, ↑unusual person

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OUTSIDER, exception, oddity, nonconformist, maverick, individualist, misfit, fish out of water, square peg in a round hole.

→ odd

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noun

1. : a method or game of choosing or eliminating one of a number of persons (as by matching coins)

2.

a. : an individual singled out from others (as by matching coins)

b. : one that by choice or circumstances does not share in the ordinary affairs of others

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1. a method of selecting or eliminating a person from a group, as by matching coins, esp. in preparation for playing a game.

2. the person so selected or eliminated.

3. a game consisting of this method.

4. outsider (def. 2).

Also, odd-man-out.

[1885-90]

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odd man out or odd one out

1. A person who is left out when numbers are made up

2. A person who, whether through personal inclination or rejection by others, gets set apart from the group to which he or she belongs, because of eg a difference of interests, behaviour, etc

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Main Entry: ↑odd

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['ˌäd ˌman 'out]

n. a person differing from all other members of a particular group or set in some way