maverick

4 definitions found

maverick - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Maverick \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.
     [1913 Webster]

  Maverick \Mav"er*ick\, v. t.
     To take a maverick. [Western U. S.]
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

maverick - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  maverick
      adj 1: independent in behavior or thought; "she led a somewhat
             irregular private life"; "maverick politicians" [syn:
             irregular, maverick, unorthodox]
      n 1: someone who exhibits great independence in thought and
           action [syn: maverick, rebel]
      2: an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs
         to the first person who puts a brand on it

maverick - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  144 Moby Thesaurus words for "maverick":
     Bohemian, Brahman, Indian buffalo, agitator, alien, ass, aurochs,
     beat, beatnik, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bigot, bison,
     bitter-ender, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, 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, 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