strange

Forms

1.Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
- I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
- He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
- Sated at length, ere long I might perceave / Strange alteration in me, to degree / Of Reason in my inward Powers, and Speech / Wanted not long, though to this shape retain’d.
2.Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
- I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
- She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in.
- 'I'm sure I should have never mentioned anything of the kind to three strange gentlemen if you hadn't dragged it out of me.'
3.Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.(slang)
- The future mother of his child was not going out and getting laid by some strange dick. He'd tie her to his bed before he let that happen.
4.Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
- A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.

1.Sex outside of one's current relationship.(slang)
- All he has to do is walk into a bar, and he can get some Strange.'” “Oh yeah, Tom,” I mutter, “that's exactly how it was, every Saturday night. Nothing but Strange. Up here too.”
- It was a bar by license, but in hiring practice it became an intergalactic smorgasbord of xenosexual delights, females of fancy species serving drinks and offering cultural exchange to human males seeking some strange.
2.A strange quark.

Common· #1599

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Indo-European *-teros

Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros

Proto-Italic *eksteros

Latin exter

Latin extrā

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Latin -nus

Latin -ānus