Maverick

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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.

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

In business:

• Maverick Records, a record label
• 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

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

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
• Dallas Mavericks an NBA basketball team
• Toronto Mavericks, a Canadian paintball team competing in the CXBL and PSP series
• 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

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