Maverick

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Unbranded.

   “Occasionally some young men who have no cattle of their own will take part in these expeditions, or they will give their services by the year to receive a pro rata of all the maverick cattle that may be found. [Quoted from The Texas New Yorker, pages 110–111.]”

2. sıfat Showing independence in thoughts or actions.

   “He made a maverick decision.  She is such a maverick person.”

3. isim An unbranded range animal.

   “Long Bill was a graduate of the camp and trail. Luck and thrift, a cool head, and a telescopic eye for mavericks had raised him from cowboy to be a cowman.”

4. isim Anything dishonestly obtained.
5. isim One who is unconventional or does not abide by rules.

   “Among historians he was a maverick because of his belief that history is meaningless.”

6. isim One who creates or uses controversial or unconventional ideas or practices.

   “We then drift back into our old habits, glorify efficiency, and smile knowingly at the mavericks within the faculty who want the administration to take democracy seriously.”

7. isim A person in the military who became an officer by going to college while on active duty as an enlisted person.

   “They had been working for and with each other for a very long period and their tolerance for “mavericks” was very high, especially if these mavericks continued to get promoted.”

8. isim A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold ’em.
9. fiil To take an unbranded range animal.

   “The court permitted the State to prove, over defendant's objections, that Thedford met Noon Tucker and Calvery driving the yearling over to Bachelor's for delivery. Thedford inquired of Noon “if that [meaning the yearling] was one he had mavericked?””

10. fiil To seize without a legal claim.
11. özel isim A surname.
12. özel isim A male given name.
13. özel isim Any of several individual secondary school and sports team mascots, most of which are in the United States.
14. isim A member of one of the sports teams with a mascot called Maverick.
15. isim Someone who attends, or has attended in the past, one of these schools, especially one involved in the sports teams.