Maverick
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. As a verb, it means to seize something without holding a lawful claim to it.[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.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
- Maverick (MBTA station), a station on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's Blue rapid transit ("T") line
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.
- Maverick (film), a 1994 film, based on the 1957 television series, starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and James Garner.
- Maverick's a 1998 one-hour PBS documentary the famed California surfing location.
- 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.
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
- Mesa State Mavericks, a NCAA Division II college football team that is a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
In computers:
- MaverickCrunch is a floating point math coprocessor by Cirrus Logic for ARM architectures.
- 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.
- A maverick is an unbranded or feral horse or bovine.
- 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
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