What is "maverick"

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

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.

1867, "calf or yearling found without an owner's brand," so called for Samuel A. Maverick (1803-1870), Texas cattle owner who was negligent in branding his calves. Sense of "individualist, unconventional person" is first recorded 1886, via notion of "masterless."

1. Showing independence in thoughts or actions. n. 1 An unbranded range animal. 2 One who does not abide by rules. 3 One who creates or uses unconventional and/or controversial ideas or practices. 4 (context poker slang English) A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold ’em v

2. (cx US English) To take an unbranded range animal.

1. adj. independent in behavior or thought; "she led a somewhat irregular private life"; "maverick politicians" [syn: irregular, unorthodox]

2. n. someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action [syn: rebel]

3. an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it

Maverick or Maverik may refer to:

Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intrinsically ethical.

When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.

Budd Boetticher directed several of the early episodes of the first season and Robert Altman wrote and directed one in the fourth season.

The show was part of the Warner Bros. array of Westerns, which included Cheyenne, Colt .45, Lawman, Bronco, The Alaskans, and Sugarfoot.

In comic books, Maverick may refer to:

• Maverick (Dark Horse), a comics imprint of Dark Horse Comics
• Maverick (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Maverick (Marvel Comics), a fictional character who appeared in the X-Men comics
• An alias of the fictional character Chris Bradley (comics) in the X-Men comics
• The Mavericks (comics), the New Mexico team of the Fifty State Initiative in Marvel Comics
• Maverick, a 1959 Dell Comics series based on the Maverick TV series (1957-1962)

Maverick! : The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace is a business autobiography by Ricardo Semler published in 1993 by Warner Books. The book relates the management succession and increasingly unorthodox ethos of Semco, which grew to become one of Brazil's largest conglomerates.

First published in Brazil in 1988 as Turning the Tables, it became the all-time best-selling nonfiction book in Brazil's history. Semler further described the unusual corporate transition in The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works published in 2003.

Maverick is the fifth album by the band George Thorogood & The Destroyers. It was released in 1985, and was produced by Terry Manning.

The album included what have now become some of his best-known songs, including " I Drink Alone" and " Willie and the Hand Jive," the latter of which became Thorogood's only single to date to crack the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

Maverick is a 1994 American Western comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by William Goldman, based on the 1950s television series of the same name created by Roy Huggins. The film stars Mel Gibson as Bret Maverick, a card player and con artist collecting money to enter a high-stakes poker game. He is joined in his adventure by Annabelle Bransford ( Jodie Foster), another con artist, and lawman Marshall Zane Cooper ( James Garner). The supporting cast features Graham Greene, James Coburn, Alfred Molina and a large number of cameo appearances by Western film actors, country music stars and other actors.

The film received a favorable critical reception for its light-hearted charm, and was financially successful, earning over $180 million during its theatrical run. Costume designer April Ferry was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.

Maverick is a subway station on the Blue Line at Maverick Square in East Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It is the easternmost underground station on the Blue Line and a transfer point to various buses. One center island platform provides access to the surface in the middle of Maverick Square. In the station, a track map lined with light bulbs shows the position of the trains on the Blue Line between Bowdoin and Orient Heights. It was one of the last stations to be converted to 6-car train service in the MBTA's Blue Line renovation project.

When the East Boston Tunnel originally opened on December 30, 1904, it was a streetcar tunnel with a portal at Maverick, known as Maverick Portal or the Maverick Incline. There was no station at Maverick; streetcars simply left the portal and continued north on Meridian Street or southeast on Maverick Street.

On April 18, 1924, the tunnel was converted to rapid transit and Maverick station opened. The streetcar loop was between the rapid transit platforms. The last streetcar lines to use the underground loop were the , , , , and ; these last ran January 4, 1952, the day before the Revere Extension to the rapid transit line opened. The streetcar loop and portal have since been closed, with parts of the incline now used for pedestrian access.

The station has gone through extensive renovation including adding new fixtures and improved accessibility. The new station opened in August 2009.

Maverick was a chocolate bar snack manufactured by Nestlé Rowntree and marketed in the UK.

The snack, which was similar to the Fuse bar sold by Nestlé Rowntree competitor Cadbury, was launched in 1997 and contained caramel, raisins and biscuit and toffee pieces covered in milk chocolate. The product was discontinued three years later.

Maverick bars featured in the British comedy series The League of Gentlemen. In the sketch, "Pop" disowns his adult son because he failed to prevent a theft of nine Maverick bars from the newspaper booth he was watching.

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Maverick is a steel roller coaster built by Intamin at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. It was the seventeenth roller coaster built at the park since Blue Streak in 1964. It is notable as being the 500th roller coaster designed by German engineer Werner Stengel and the first roller coaster featuring a Twisted Horseshoe Roll. Maverick's US$21-million price tag makes it Cedar Point's third most expensive roller coaster. The course makes it the fourth longest roller coaster at Cedar Point.

Maverick was scheduled to open on May 12, 2007, but opening was delayed until May 26, 2007 after testing revealed the heartline roll element to be too intense. Continued use of the element would have put excessive stress on trains. At a drop angle of 95 degrees, Maverick is Cedar Point's steepest roller coaster. The ride's tagline is "The Old West Was Never This Wild."

Maverick is a pinball machine produced initially by Data East Pinball, and then by Sega Pinball. It is based on the motion picture of the same name. It was the first pinball machine to use a bigger DMD (192x64) and the last pinball machine produced by Data East.

"Maverick" is a single released by D'espairsRay on February 12, 2003. It was re-released on March 26, 2003, coming in a DVD-case rather than a normal jewel case. This is also the last release by D'espairsRay on which their name is stylised as "+D'espairsRay+".

Maverick is a defunct imprint of Dark Horse Comics, created in 1999 by editor Diana Schutz for creator-owned works, to "provid[e] a home for creator-owned properties — providing a certain identity to those creator-owned labors of love that distinguishes them from Dark Horse's licensed books." The imprint, Dark Horse's second attempt at a creator-owned imprint (after "Legend") was relatively short-lived, publishing fewer than fifty issues/titles between 1999 and 2002.

The Maverick is an internal security vehicle that was designed and developed by the Paramount Group in South Africa.

It was launched in 2008 during the Africa Aerospace and Defence Exhibition (AAD), which took place at the Ysterplaat Air Force Base in Cape Town, South Africa.

Maverick (stylized MAVERICK) is the seventh studio album by Japanese electropop singer-songwriter Meg, released in Japan on 23 June 2010. This was her last original studio effort with Yasutaka Nakata as producer.

Released in Japan on June 23, 2010, it peaked at number 20 on the Oricon chart in its chart debut, and stayed on the chart for four weeks in total.

One single was released from the album, Secret Adventure. Released on April 28, 2010, it reached number 44 on the Oricon chart, where it charted for two weeks.

Maverick was an entertainment company founded in 1992 by Madonna, Frederick DeMann and Veronica "Ronnie" Dashev. It was owned and operated by Warner Music Group. It included a recording company (Maverick Records), a film production company (Maverick Films), book publishing, music publishing, Latin record division (Maverick Musica) and a television production company. The first releases for the company were Madonna's 1992 coffee table publication, Sex and her studio album Erotica which were released simultaneously to great controversy.

DeMann was bought out of the company for a reported $20 million in 1998. Guy Oseary increased his stake in the company and took control as Chairman and CEO. Madonna and Dashev left in 2004 after a lawsuit between Maverick and Warner Music Group.

As of 2014, the company was revived as a management group founded by Oseary in partnership with Live Nation Entertainment. It consists of Oseary and other recording artist managers Ron Laffitte, Caron Veazey, Gee Roberson, Cortez Bryant, Larry Rudolph, Adam Leber, Scott Rodger and Clarence Spalding. All nine managers and their companies joined and rebranded as "Maverick" on October 17, 2014.

Maverick is a term, usually referring to cattle, for an animal that does not carry a brand. In the period of the United States open range, such animals were relatively common. Many cows would give birth in wild or semi-wild conditions, not be located in an annual round up, and their ensuing calf could thus grow to maturity without having been captured and branded for ownership. The term derived from Samuel Maverick, who, among his other claims to fame, was notorious for not branding his cattle.

Other U.S. terms for unbranded cattle include slick, hairy dick, and, in Spanish-speaking areas of the Southwest, orejano. In other parts of the world, different terms are used. In Australia and New Zealand, for example, an unbranded animal is a cleanskin.

In the code of the American Old West, such animals could be branded and claimed by any rancher able to capture and brand the animal.

In modern times, there are few true mavericks, as most cattle run on private ranches, usually calving close to a ranch where young calves are easily captured and branded prior to being turned out to grazing leases on public lands. When a mature, unbranded animal is found today, the most common practice is to make a concerted effort to locate a possible owner, and then, if the animal cannot be identified, to put it up for public auction at a Sheriff's sale, where the proceeds usually cover the cost of impounding the animal and attempting to locate an owner.

In addition to traditional hot branding, animals today may also be marked for identification by freeze branding, by tattooing, by ear tags, or by having a microchip embedded into the animal, usually in the neck. However, in the United States, a hot brand is generally the only legally recognized method of animal identification on cattle, though the law varies from state to state.

In some cases, modern animals may be left unbranded for several reasons. This may include a desire not to have the animal marked due to its use as a show animal, particularly in the case of horses, or, in cattle, to avoid a scar on the hide if it is to be used for leatherworking. Some modern owners do not brand due to a reluctance to inflict pain on the animal.

Maverick is a studio album by American country music artist Hank Williams Jr. It was released by Curb/ Capricorn Records on February 18, 1992. "Hotel Whiskey," "Come On Over to the Country" and "Lyin' Jukebox" were released as singles. The album peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and has been certified Gold by the RIAA.

Maverick is the soundtrack to the film of the same name. It was released in 1994 by Atlantic Records. The album peaked at number four on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

Maverick is a brand of cigarettes owned by ITG Brands LLC, a subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco Company. Maverick cigarettes are made in the United States and Austria. They are available in packs of 20. In order to comply with FDA regulations, Maverick's former owner, Lorillard, had until June 22, 2010 to rebrand tobacco products marketed as "Lights", "Ultra-Lights", "Medium", "Mild", "Full Flavor", or similar designations to belie the impression that some tobacco products are comparatively safe.

Maverick is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

• Kurd Maverick, Kurdish-German producer and DJ
• Mary Maverick (1818–1898), Texas pioneer and diarist
• Maury Maverick (1895–1954), US Congressman from Texas, who coined the word "gobbledygook"
• Maury Maverick, Jr. (1921–2003), Texas attorney, activist, and columnist
• Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), Texas pioneer and land baron from whom the term maverick originated
• Samuel Maverick Jr (1837-1936), Texas soldier, businessman, and Alamo preservationist
• Samuel Maverick (apprentice) (died 1770), a young man killed in the Boston Massacre
• Samuel Maverick (colonist) (c. 1602 – c. 1670), English colonist in Massachusetts

Given name:

• Maverick Sabre (born 1990), English singer-songwriter and rapper
• Maverick Viñales (born 1995), Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer