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Maverick   /mˈævərɪk/  /mˈævrɪk/   Listen
Maverick

noun
1.
Someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action.  Synonym: rebel.
2.
An unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it.
adjective
1.
Independent in behavior or thought.  Synonyms: irregular, unorthodox.  "Maverick politicians"





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"Maverick" Quotes from Famous Books



... get that fellow now, because before the next rodeo he'll be big enough to leave his mother, and then; if he isn't branded, he'll be a maverick, and will belong to anybody that puts an iron ...
— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright
... were associated Sir Robert Carr, Colonel George Cartwright, and Samuel Maverick, as royal commissioners to visit the several colonies in New England. These commissioners were furnished with detailed instructions; and the New England governments were required by royal letters to "join and ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 • Editor-In-Chief Rossiter Johnson
... Largo Canon? The Concho cattle grazed to the east. Perhaps White had forgotten his promise to ride over some evening. Pete swung his loop and roped a clump of brush. "I'll sure forefoot you, you doggone longhorn!" he said. "I'll git my iron on you, you maverick! I'm the Ridin' Kid from Powder River, and I ride 'em straight up an' comin'." So he romanced, his feet on the ground, but his heart with the bawling herd and the charging ponies. "Like to rope a lion," he told himself ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... root; this is the nest;' with more valor than discretion they rushed to King Street, and were fired upon by Capt. Preston's company. Crispus Attucks was the first to fall; he and Samuel Gray and Jonas Caldwell were killed on the spot. Samuel Maverick and Patrick Carr were mortally wounded. The excitement which followed was intense. The bells of the town were rung. An impromptu town-meeting was held, and an immense assembly was gathered. Three days after, on the ...
— The Black Phalanx - African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the - War of 1812, and the Civil War • Joseph T. Wilson
... group of poems written and printed by Harvey White. The Maverick Press; Woodstock, ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman


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