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  1. MAVERICK definition: 1. a person who thinks and acts in an independent way, often behaving differently from the expected…. Learn more.

  2. The meaning of MAVERICK is an unbranded range animal; especially : a motherless calf. How to use maverick in a sentence. Did you know?

  3. MAVERICK meaning: 1. a person who thinks and acts in an independent way, often behaving differently from the expected…. Learn more.

  4. n. 1. (Agriculture) (in US and Canadian cattle-raising regions) an unbranded animal, esp a stray calf. 2. a. a person of independent or unorthodox views. b. ( as modifier ): a maverick politician. [C19: after Samuel A. Maverick (1803–70), Texas rancher, who did not brand his cattle]

  5. 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.

  6. If you describe someone as a maverick, you mean that they are unconventional and independent, and do not think or behave in the same way as other people. He was too much of a maverick ever to hold high office. Synonyms: rebel, radical, dissenter, individualist More Synonyms of maverick. Maverick is also an adjective.

  7. A maverick is a rebel, someone who shows a lot of independence. A maverick on a motorcycle might blaze her own trail, traveling around the country and earning money by performing in rodeos.