bad boy vs oddball

bad boy

noun
  • A man whose rebellious nature makes him dangerous and/or attractive. 

  • A male criminal. 

  • An undesirable or difficult task. 

  • A powerful or impressive product or item. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bad, boy. 

oddball

noun
  • An eccentric or unusual person. 

  • A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant. 

adj
  • Exotic, not mainstream. 

How often have the words bad boy and oddball occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )