Maverick

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Maverick -- U.S. County in Texas
     Population (2000):    47297
     Housing Units (2000): 14889
     Land area (2000):     1280.075258 sq. miles (3315.379558 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    11.664875 sq. miles (30.211885 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    1291.740133 sq. miles (3345.591443 sq. km)
     Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
     Location:             28.742950 N, 100.387315 W
     Headwords:
      Maverick
      Maverick, TX
      Maverick County
      Maverick County, TX