maverick English

Meaning maverick meaning

What does maverick mean?

maverick

— noun someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

— noun an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it

— adjective (= irregular) independent in behavior or thought she led a somewhat irregular private life maverick politicians

Synonyms maverick synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as maverick?

maverick English » English

unorthodox

nonconformist

rebel

mustang

loner

irregular

dissenter

wanderer

tramp

stray

slick

queer fellow

one who acts independently

oddball

malcontent

lone wolf

individualist

iconoclast

enfant terrible

eccentric

Examples maverick examples

How do I use maverick in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Ah, Jim, you always was the craziest maverick I ever did know.

A man could begin a herd with a maverick: An unbranded stray on the public range.

A law through which they appointed themselves commissioners. with power to rule on the ownership of every maverick branded.

The Maverick Law was designed to protect us all against cattle rustling.

I'd like to ask him who paid bribe money. to the Cattle Commissioners to outlaw your brands? To see to it that every time you roped a maverick it was confiscated?

Here's a maverick for you, Wally!

There's no money in that kind of maverick.

We're gettin' married as soon as I get more maverick money.

Here's a complaint signed by Judge Crawford. to the effect that these men are defying the Maverick Law.

You're the prettiest little maverick I ever did see!

Hi, Maverick.

Where to, Maverick?

Doggone, it's sure good to see you, you little maverick, you.

A bit of a maverick, but I hear he's good.

Just yew and tamarind. Hey, this here's a maverick, ain't it?

She aims to buy up every maverick you can lay a rope on, so bring 'em on in.

We're not raising cattle to feed a maverick lion.

Judy's old lion and that lady maverick.

That's not the point. I'm the one who's the maverick.

What you are is a maverick.

I'm tired of pretending to write this dumb book. about my maverick days in the early years of television.

We're replicating Heath's and Friedhoff's strategies trying to find maverick substances specific to schizophrenia.

This umbrella is such a maverick. - You're like a child.

Cougar and Merlin and Maverick and Goose.

Maverick and Goose.

Take it easy, Maverick.

Mustang, this is Maverick.

Maverick, get down here and get this asshole off me.

Cougar, this is Maverick.

Maverick has the ball.

God damn it, Maverick.

Thanks, Maverick.

News and current affairs

As a result, Hirschman looks less and less the maverick that he fancied himself to be.

Ehud Olmert, the party's leader and now elected prime minister, has been a maverick of the center since his student days - a fitting symbol for the rapprochement of left and right.

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, a veteran political maverick and former mayor of Jerusalem, inspired several of Sharon's initiatives.

Sarkozy's maverick ways could save France.

Only three maverick Republican Senators went along with Obama's proposals to get the plan accepted.

Should the best answer to the return of Russia's imperial ambitions be a modern version of a Holy Alliance of stability designed to contain the world's new maverick?

But change is coming, in the form of a 36-year-old maverick with no traditional-party backing.