bizarro

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative, colloquial)Alternative form of bizarre.

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

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

2. (humorous, informal)Being the opposite or logical inverse of a familiar person, place, or situation.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

3. Pertaining to bizarro fiction.

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

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)weirdo, misfit

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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]) […]”

2. (uncountable)Bizarro fiction.

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

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

   “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.”