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• n  someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
• n  someone deranged and possibly dangerous

• Having long since established himself as a master of alienated, weirdo characters, most famously in Ghost World, Dan Clowes has now begun to explore the formal properties of the .
• Eightball positively crackles with self-loathing and pop-culture smarts and crawls with the kind of weirdo loners Clowes portrayed so well in Ghost World.
• The weirdo is an altogether more shadowy figure -- Charles Manson acting out his messianic visions.

• creep
• weirdie
• weirdy
• spook
• crazy
• loony
• looney
• nutcase

News & Articles

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• I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon
  I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon by Touré | Atria Books | 176 pages This was supposed to be The Prince Book: the book that combined voluminous insider information with deep knowledge of the star’s music and, most importantly, a 21st-century perspective on what this weirdo and his music actually mean. This is not that Prince book. To start with, omnipresent cultural and political ...
  June 18, 2013 - Orlando Weekly

Quotes

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• Jason Segel in Metro Canada - Vancouver
  Literally, five years ago I was like a weirdo with puppets,said Segel. "Now that it's my profession, it's, like, super cool."
• Lily Allen in Mirror.co.uk
  Writing on her MySpace blog, Lily said: "So, they let me in. Hello America, it's nice to be back. Immigration was funny. They only kept me for an hour or so. I don't think all the businessmen liked us very much, some pinkhaired weirdo...... ha ha."
• Timothy Spall in Hartford Courant
  He is a creep,Spall says of his character. "I mean, he is a weirdo, and he's a child abuser and a sort of reprehensible character of the time. The reality is that Dickens wanted you to understand all of that about him, I think. But there's...