weirdo
Americannoun
plural
weirdos-
an odd, eccentric, or unconventional person.
-
a psychopath, especially a dangerous or vicious one; psycho.
They caught the weirdo who attacked the children.
noun
Usage
What does weirdo mean? A weirdo is a person who behaves in ways that are considered odd or unconventional.Weirdo is based on the adjective weird, which most commonly means strange, odd, peculiar, or bizarre. Weirdo is very informal. It can be used both negatively as an insult and positively as a compliment, depending on how you feel about someone else’s weird behavior.Much less commonly, weirdo can be used as an informal term for a person considered a dangerous psychopath.Example: My dog keeps licking the wall—what a weirdo!
Etymology
Origin of weirdo
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
As for Nice Guy, they have this chicken Parmesan but I’m a weirdo, I eat the chicken Parmesan without the Parmesan.
From Los Angeles Times
But also eccentric, loner, rogue, oddball—even weirdo.
He should have known this was a bad idea, as if they were going to get anything useful off of some weirdo they found deep in the darkest bowels of the internet.
From Literature
“A strange little pack of a burned coyote, a weirdo human who likes coyotes, and an opossum.”
From Literature
The other benefit of being obsessed with the Christmas singles was that it helped you find the other weirdos.
From Salon
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
