Person with independent or unorthodox views

Usage examples of maverick.

Boda the maverick cabber calling the people of Manchester from the Gumbo wave.

Cameron and Willacy counties on the Gulf through Hidalgo, Starr, Zapata, Webb, Dimmit, Zavala, and Maverick, the American citizens of Mexican ancestry have, through the exercise of their right to vote, taken control of county functions: school boards, zoning, police and fire protection, road departments, library services, county welfare, and all the other boards and commissions which spring full grown from the over-fertilized minds of the political animals.

Here all along the valley from Cameron and Willacy counties on the Gulf through Hidalgo, Starr, Zapata, Webb, Dimmit, Zavala, and Maverick, the American citizens of Mexican ancestry have, through the exercise of their right to vote, taken control of county functions: school boards, zoning, police and fire protection, road departments, library services, county welfare, and all the other boards and commissions which spring full grown from the over-fertilized minds of the political animals.

He needed a very special heroine, and I found her in Maxima Collins, who is as much a maverick as Robin.

I can cite instances beyond number when maverick researchers have come up against the obduracy of the scientific establishment.

Ark Sool was the highest-ranking gnome officer in Internal Affairs, and he believed that the LEP was basically a bunch of loose cannons who were presided over by a maverick.

She had started her herd by mavericking, taking possession of unbranded cattle.

Great Danes, Sheba and Maverick, greeted them ebulliently as they clambered on board, though Peta knew that the animals would not be so friendly were their master not in the group.

During the next twenty-four hours, the two Iraqi heavy divisions were hit by more than a thousand attack sorties, many by A-10 attack aircraft and Apache and Cobra helicopters, all of which employed the most lethal precision-guided munitions of all: Maverick, Hellfire, and TOW antitank missiles.

The cars are the beater first cars kids drive in high school: Gremlins and Pacers, Mavericks and Hornets, Pintos, International Harvester pickup trucks, lowered Camaros and Dusters and Impalas.

Thus, with a few maverick exceptions, anthropologists accepted the theory that man had not invaded the New World until perhaps a thousand years before the time of Christ.

Pugaliese wouldn't go, so to force him they appointed Cataffo their Capo di tutti capi, a supreme leader, to command a united thrust against the maverick.

An intellectual, a maverick, and a warrior in a service that was increasingly anti-intellectual, conformist, and bureaucratized, he thought of himself as the token exception in what was turning into The Corporate Navy.

The glamour associated with gangsters in the thirties made them seem like exciting mavericks with big bankrolls, even when they were in prison.

The Eagle evaded fire and got off a Maverick air-to-ground missile, which streaked down to obliterate the gun-track, and then the pilot went after the next battery of howitzers.