odd-lotter

[ od-lot-er ]

/ ˈɒdˈlɒt ər /

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noun

a person who buys or sells odd lots.

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Origin of odd-lotter

First recorded in 1965–70; odd lot + -er¹

I've seen video of that satirical guide to SXSW in 1998 where you asked a bunch of bands odd questions.
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As the controversy unfurled late Monday, it created some odd bedfellows.
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So when he told me, 'You can come to my show, but you can't come to see Phoebe, and you can't come to see Riccardo, that was odd.
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Would he have been careful enough to destroy the odd pieces of jute you've left so messily about?
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Tom Angell, founder of nonprofit Marijuana Majority, says the whole thing is a bit odd.
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Do you know, Monsieur, that just as we were coming into Moulins, we remarked your odd-looking cabriolet de poste.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
He heard himself saying lightly, though with apparent lack of interest: 'How curious, Lettice, how very odd!
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
There is an odd triangular-shaped hill that rises on one side very boldly and abruptly, called the Fox's Head.
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He sang the words with an odd, emphatic slowness, turning to look at Lettice between the phrases.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
Nothing was out of the ordinary except that the Professor developed an odd trick of continually glancing at his right hand.
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