head case vs oddball

head case

noun
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see head, case. 

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 head case and oddball occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )