Weird derives from the Anglo-Saxon word Wyrd, meaning fate or destiny. In modern English it has acquired the meaning of “strange or uncanny”. It may also refer to: Places Weird Lake, a lake in Minnesota, U.S. People "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American musician and parodist Art, entertainment, and media Literature Weird US, a series of travel guides The Weird, a 2012 anthology of weird fiction Weird fiction, speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century Music "Weird" (Hanson song), 1998 "Weird", a song from Hilary Duff's album Hilary Duff Weird!, a 2020 album by Yungblud New Weird America, a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s Other art, entertainment, and media Weird (comics), a fictional DC Comics character Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a biographical comedy Other uses WEIRD, an acronym for "Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic", cultural identifier of psychology test subjects Weird number, a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect See also Weirdo (disambiguation)