All 3 Uses
eccentric
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- Contact with the enemy was negligible, except in the case of one Marine from the 3rd Platoon, a blacksmith's son and bona fide eccentric from Montana named Don Ruhl.†
Chpt 8. *
- With no apparent thought that it might be occupied by extremely unfriendly tenants, the eccentric Montana boy crawled inside and explored its entire length with lighted matches.†
Chpt 8.
- Don Ruhl's eccentric bravado finally got the better of him.†
Chpt 9.
Definitions:
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(1)
(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits -- often in a way that seems interesting or harmless
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, in technical usage, eccentric can mean "not concentric".