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odds and bods en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (UK, informal, plural, plural-only) Synonym of odds and sods (“miscellaneous items”).
    • Barbary lions had been believed extinct in the wild since the mid-twentieth century, survived only by a few odds and bods of DNA carried in captive individuals descended from Haile Selassie's private collection. 2015, Bryn Ellis, Half Trace, page 290:
  2. (UK, informal, plural, plural-only) Synonym of odds and sods (“ordinary people who lack distinction”).

Relateds

odd bod

Synonyms

odds and sods · odds and sods