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Maverick

noun

Someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action. Synonym: rebel.

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

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"Maverick" Quotes from Famous Books

... steers and sheep, worth millions of dollars. These young men are not of the kind of whom the metropolitan ass writes as saying "youbetcherlife," and calling everybody "pardner." They are many of them college graduates, who can brand a wild Maverick or furnish the easy gestures ...

— Remarks • Bill Nye

... account for Bradford's disparaging description of him as a "kind of petie-fogie of Furnifells Inn," and explains why the early historians never made any fuller or more favorable record than absolutely necessary of these neighbors of theirs, although the churchman Samuel Maverick admits that Morton was a "gentleman ...

— The Old Coast Road - From Boston to Plymouth • Agnes Rothery

Words linked to "Maverick" : unconventional, nonconformist, calf, recusant