bizarro

comparative more bizarro · superlative most bizarro

1. alternativecolloquialAlternative form of bizarre.

   "So you found a cow?" Alison mocked his discovery. "That's bizarro, you know."

   1988, Daniel Moreau, In Death We Trust, page 80

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   "Man," Hesketh said, "that's bizarro. One second they're there, and the next nothing.

   2018, Kieran Shea, Koko Uncaged

2. humorousinformalBeing the opposite or logical inverse of a familiar person, place, or situation.

   Egypt is a Bizarro-Canaan, looking as Canaan might look seen through Alice's looking glass. It shows the Judeans how a country should not be run.

   2010, Gershon Hepner, Legal Friction: Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 618

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   In some alternate, bizarro universe, there was probably a bizarro Kirsten who was totally awesome. Bizarro Kirsten gave bizarro Dillie and bizarro Liza awesome makeovers and awesome advice and let them stay up after hours eating awesome snacks and watching awesome late-night TV.

   2010, Robin Wasserman, Candy Apple #25: Wish You Were Here, Liza, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 23

   This then leads to Elaine's entrance into what Jerry describes as a “Bizarro world,” citing the Superman concept, in which all of the facets of the show as we know it, especially its principle^([sic]) characters, are reproduced in some way backward.

   2013, Andrew Shaw-Kitch, Structure, Seinfeld, and Play, Lulu.com, →ISBN

   When the occupation began, Jon Stewart called it “the Bizarro Tea Party,” which is funny because it's the Tea Party—billionaires organizing mad-as-hell rallies against working-class programs—that is a bizarro version of a genuine grassroots protest movement.

   2012, Danny Katch, America's Got Democracy: The Making of the World's Longest-Running Reality Show, Haymarket Books, →ISBN

3. literaturePertaining to bizarro fiction.

   An incredibly fucked-up parody of B-horror movies with a bizarro slant.

   2010, Caris O'Malley, The Egg Said Nothing, Caris O'Malley, →ISBN, page 97

plural bizarros

1. countableuncountableweirdo, misfit

   BOOM!, he can't walk, can't talk, he's in a ward at a state institution with thirty retarded bizarros, many of them bizzare^([sic]) […]

   2009, Martin Drapkin, Now and at the Hour, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 1

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   Often described as "the Citizen Kane of dismemberment movies," this cult-movie masterpiece set the standards for the "bizarros-who-turn-their-home-into-a-human-slaughterhouse" horror genre.

   1997, Harold Schechter, The Manly Movie Guide, Boulevard, →ISBN

   Showgirl breasts and round hips that swayed to a sultry beat when she walked and drew heartbreakers and bizarros from the four corners of the earth.

   2008, Cindy Gerard, Whisper No Lies, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 1

   Synonyms: kook, odd duck, wacko, coot, crackpot, crank, eccentric, freak

2. uncountableBizarro fiction.

   Bizarro isn't really a new genre. Just a new term.

   2006, Gina Ranalli, Chemical Gardens, →ISBN

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   Bizarro is literature's equivalent to the cult section at the video store.

   2006, Carlton Mellick, Jeremy Robert Johnson, The Bizarro Starter Kit: An Introduction to the Bizarro Genre, →ISBN

   Not only does it centre on the dire-sounding romance novel, Electra Galaxy's Mr Interstellar Feller (product description: "When a handsome yet stuffy intergalactic cop is forced to enter the Electra Galaxy's Mr Interstellar Feller competition, and is partnered with an Earth cop as his manager and overseer, hilarity and romance ensue"), but it takes the bizarro quotient to new levels.

   2009 December 11, Alison Flood, “When authors attack”, in The Guardian