odd duck
noun
a slightly eccentric or unusual person.
odd ducks
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pluralof odd duck.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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While none of this year's shorts are as paltry as the odd ducks from the last two years of nominees, “I Am Ready, Warden” is the closest any 2025 documentary shorts come to abject exploitation.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2025
To help you decide, I bring you this semi-informative, quasi-scientific, intermittently analogous field guide to the rare birds and odd ducks of “Modern Love.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019
They are the odd ducks, the special additions.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2018
The average free dance score for those odd ducks is higher than that for any other group: 98.86.
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2018
At the very beginning, however, it is alive with odd ducks that startle the eye, expose technical secrets and let us watch the creative process unfold.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2016
