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Maverick

Maverick Meaning & Definition
Maverick Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Maverick?

[n] unbranded range animal especially a stray calf
[n] someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action
[adj] independent in behavior or thought; "she led a somewhat irregular private life"; "maverick politicians"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Maverick: irregular | rebel | unconventional | unorthodox

Related Terms | Find terms related to Maverick: agitator | alien | ass | aurochs | beat | beatnik | beef | beef cattle | beeves | bigot | bison | bitter-ender | Bohemian | bossy | bovine | bovine animal | Brahman | brawler | breakaway | buffalo | bull | bullethead | bullock | calf | carabao | case | cattle | character | cow | crackpot | crank | critter | dairy cattle | dairy cow | deviant | diehard | dissenter | dogie | dogmatist | donkey | dropout | eccentric | extremist | fanatic | far out | flower child | freak | free and easy | fringy | frondeur | hardnose | heifer | heretic | heretical | hermit | heterodox | hippie | hobo | hornless cow | Indian buffalo | informal | insubordinate | insurgent | insurrectionary | insurrectionist | insurrecto | intransigeant | intransigent | kine | kinky | kook | last-ditcher | leppy | lone wolf | loner | malcontent | meshuggenah | milch cow | milcher | milk cow | milker | misfit | mule | muley cow | muley head | musk-ox | mutineer | natural | neat | nonconformist | nonjuror | not cricket | not done | not kosher | nut | odd fellow | oddball | oddity | offbeat | original | outsider | ox | oxen | pariah | perverse fool | pighead | positivist | purist | queer duck | queer fish | queer specimen | rara avis | rebel | revolter | revolutionary | revolutionist | rioter | screwball | sectarian | sectary | solitary | standpat | standpatter | steer | stickler | stirk | stot | subversive | swinger | traitor | tramp | type | ugly duckling | unconformist | unconventional | unfashionable | unorthodox | way out | wisent | yak | yearling | yippie | zealot | zebu

See Also | calf | nonconformist | recusant

Maverick In Webster's Dictionary

\Mav"er*ick\, n. 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.
\Mav"er*ick\, v. t. To take a maverick. [Western U. S.]

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