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maverick
[ mav-er-ik, mav-rik ]
noun
- Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, especially an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.
- a lone dissenter, such as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from their peers:
His unusual techniques made him a maverick of modern dance.
- a person pursuing rebellious, even potentially disruptive, policies or ideas:
You can't muzzle a maverick.
- Maverick, an electro-optically guided U.S. air-to-ground tactical missile for destroying tanks and other hardened targets at ranges up to 15 miles (24 km).
adjective
- unorthodox, unconventional, or nonconformist:
She had a reputation as a maverick fiscal conservative willing to raise taxes.
maverick
/ ˈmævərɪk /
noun
- (in US and Canadian cattle-raising regions) an unbranded animal, esp a stray calf
- a person of independent or unorthodox views
- ( as modifier )
a maverick politician
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Example Sentences
To be bold, to be a maverick, to stretch beyond established limits, is the stuff of inspiration.
Williams scored his first Oscar nomination playing maverick U.S. Armed Services DJ Adrian Cronauer in Good Morning, Vietnam.
Then, one day, a maverick doctor gave him a miracle too fantastic to believe.
Instead, the former five-term congressman said, “They just look at me as a maverick curmudgeon.”
Instead, Pressler is already figuring out ways that he can leverage his power as a maverick senator.
Thats two of them, old Maverick, called Stone, breathing on his smarting right hand.
It was the rule of the cattlemen that a "maverick" belonged to the ranchman on whose range it was found.
They say—they think I ought to get married—to Maverick or somebody.
Maverick, I saw it all, and I can swear it was self-defense.
Maverick covered her with his coat after she was no longer conscious.
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