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What (who) is MAVERICK - definition
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Maverik; Mavrick; Maverick's; Mavericks; Maverick (Album); Maverick (disambiguation); Mavericky; Maveric; Maverick (album); Mavericks (album); The Mavericks (album)
Maverick
·add. ·vt To take a maverick.
II. Maverick ·noun In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild;
- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who neglected to brand his cattle.
maverick
(mavericks)
If you describe someone as a maverick, you mean that they are unconventional and independent, and do not think or behave in the same way as other people.
He was too much of a maverick ever to hold high office.
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Maverick is also an adjective.
...a maverick group of scientists, who oppose the prevailing medical opinion on the disease...
ADJ: ADJ n
maverick
¦ noun
1. [often as modifier] an unorthodox or independent-minded person: a maverick politician.
2. N. Amer. an unbranded calf or yearling.
Origin
C19: from the name of Samuel A. Maverick, a Texas rancher who did not brand his cattle.
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Maverick
Maverick, Maveric or Maverik may refer to:
Examples of use of MAVERICK
1. And if everyone in the party becomes a maverick, then aren‘t they all just conforming to a new "maverick" norm?
2. Nine Democratic senators –– Virginia‘s other maverick, Sen.
3. The maverick Eighty–one–year–old Robert Altman has a reputation as a maverick, a director who works outside the system and disdains the Hollywood machine.
4. Barack Obama drew substantial media attention for a spot declaring: "John McCain is hardly a maverick. . . . Sarah Palin‘s no maverick, either.
5. Convention organizers distributed hand–painted signs announcing "Maverick." Biographical videos proclaimed the "maverick" status of McCain and his vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov.