A Maverick is a person with independence of thought or action, a non-conformist; or, in American use, a stray animal without an owner's mark on it. Phonology North American English regional phonology In many ways compared to English English, North American English is conservative in its Phonology. As a verb, it means to seize something without holding a lawful claim to it. For English usage of verbs see the wiki article English verbs. ^[1]

Maverick can also refer to:

Attractions:

• Maverick (roller coaster), at Cedar Point amusement park

People:

• Maury Maverick, Jr. (1921–2003), a Texas politician, activist and columnist
• Maury Maverick (1895–1954), a U. Maverick is a linear synchronous motor -launched steel complete-circuit Roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio. Maury Maverick Jr ( January 3 1921 &ndash January 28 2003) was an American Lawyer, politician, activist Fontaine Maury Maverick ( October 23, 1895 - June 7, 1954) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives S. Congressman from San Antonio who coined the word "gobbledygook"
• Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803–1870), a Texas cattleman from whom the term maverick originated
• Samuel Maverick (colonist) (1602–1670), an English colonist in Massachusetts
• Samuel Maverick (apprentice), one of five men killed by British troops during the Boston Massacre
• Maverick Matt (Matt Bentley), professional wrestler in TNA wrestling

Places:

• Maverick County, Texas, USA
• Mavericks (location), a reef near Half Moon Bay in Northern California known for powerful surf and an annual big-wave riding surf contest

In business:

• Maverick, an entertainment company with record and film divisions;
  • Maverick Records, a record label
  • Maverick Films, an film production company
• Maverick (magazine), a South African business magazine
• Maverik Lacrosse, a lacrosse equipment and apparel company, based in Mineola, New York
• Maverick Technology a worldwide distributor of automotive diagnostic equipment based in England

In games:

• Maverick (Mega Man), rebellious Reploids from the Mega Man X video game series
• A Maverick is a flyable helicopter in the Grand Theft Auto video game series

In film and television:

• Maverick (TV series), a 1957 television series set in the American Old West starring James Garner and Jack Kelly. For the 17th-century English colonist in Massachusetts see Samuel Maverick (colonist (1602&ndash1670 Samuel Maverick (c 1602 - c 1670 was a 17th century English colonist in what is now Massachusetts, the United States. Matthew James "Matt" Bentley. Later in 2003 Bentley formed a stable with Shane Douglas and Traci known as The New Franchise. Maverick County is a County located in the US state of Texas. For other uses of the word see Maverick. Maverick's or Mavericks is a world-famous but for some a notorious and deadly Surfing Maverick is an entertainment company founded by Madonna, Frederick DeMann and Ronnie Dashev in April 1992. Maverick Recording Company, is an American Record label and the record company division of entertainment company Maverick. Maverick Films is an American film production company which was founded by Madonna and CEO of Maverick Records, Guy Oseary. Maverick is a South African business magazine published every four weeks since December 2005 Maverik Lacrosse is a manufacturer of Lacrosse equipment and apparell, based in Mineola, New York. A Maverick, in the video game series Mega Man X, Mega Man Zero, and Mega Man ZX, is a Reploid who generally Maverick is a Comedy - western television series created by Roy Huggins that ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8
• Maverick (film), a 1994 film, based on the 1957 television series, starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and James Garner. Maverick is an Academy Award nominated 1994 Comedy Western movie, based on the 1950s television series Maverick, created
• Maverick's a 1998 one-hour PBS documentary the famed California surfing location. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the
• The callsign of the main character (played by Tom Cruise) in the film Top Gun
• Yugioh (anime)'s recurring villain in the later seasons goes by the name Maverick. Top Gun is a 1986 American Film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with

In music:

• The Mavericks, a country music band
• Maverick (album), a George Thorogood album
• TheTrueMaverick, an experimental classical/ambient band

In sports:

• Dallas Mavericks, an NBA basketball team
• Mid-Missouri Mavericks, a Columbia, Missouri minor league baseball team
• Toronto Mavericks, a Canadian paintball team competing in the CXBL and PSP series

In computers:

• MaverickCrunch is a floating point math coprocessor by Cirrus Logic for ARM architectures. The Mavericks was a Grammy Award -winning Alternative country music band founded in 1989 in Miami Florida, United States. Maverick is the fifth album by the band George Thorogood and the Destroyers. The Dallas Mavericks (also known as the Mavs) are the professional Basketball team of the National Basketball Association based in Dallas Texas History The Mid-Missouri franchise has had a checkered history in the Frontier League Columbia (kəˈlʌmbiə is the fifth-largest city in the US state of Missouri and the largest city in Mid-Missouri. The MaverickCrunch is a floating point math coprocessor core by Cirrus Logic, currently implemented in silicon alongside an ARM920T main core in their 200MHz EP9302 EP9307 EP9312
• Maverick Framework is an MVC framework for Java

In other uses:

• Maverick (chocolate), a chocolate snack previously manufactured by Nestle
• Ford Maverick, the name of 4 different automobiles made by the Ford Motor Company
• AGM-65 Maverick, a guided air-to-surface missile
• Maverick, a Marvel Comics mutant superhero also known as David North (comics) or Agent Zero
• A-Tech Mavericks, mascot for Advanced Technologies Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Maverick (book), an autobiography of Ricardo Semler's company
• Maverick (cigarettes) made by the Lorillard Tobacco Co. Maverick is a Model-view-controller framework for the Java platform that allows developing web applications in a very structured modular and reusable way (thanks Maverick was a chocolate bar snack manufactured by Nestlé Rowntree and marketed in the UK. The AGM-65 Maverick is an air-to-ground tactical missile (AGM designed for close air support Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler (1993: Warner Books Maverick is essentially the autobiography of a business Ricardo Semler (born 1959 in São Paulo) is the CEO and majority owner of Semco SA, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of
• A maverick is an unbranded or feral horse or bovine. A feral organism is one that has escaped from Domestication and returned partly or wholly to its wild state
• Maverick Property Management is a lettings agent based in Cardiff
• Maverick Explorer Scout Unit is based in Woking, Surrey, UK
• The Maverick REV-6 is a Nerf gun in the N-Strike series

Notes

NERF (or sometimes Nerf) is a type of toy created for safe indoor play that either shoots or is made of foam-like material The tenth edition of The Chambers Dictionary of the English language was published in 2006 by Chambers Harrap Publishers.

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