maverick

     

A Maverick is a person with inependence 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.

Trivia about maverick

  • Before he was Rockford, James Garner was this wisecracking Western card shark
  • Mel, James & Jodie brought this little screen western to the big screen in 1994
  • This TV Western's episode titled "3 Queens Full" was a "Bonanza" spoof featuring the dumb Wheelwright clan
  • Future James Bond Roger Moore played Beau, an English cousin of this James Garner western hero
  • By leaving his cows unbranded, a Texas cattle rancher gave us this term for an independent loner
  • This Best Western of 1958-59 was remade in 1994 as a movie starring Mel Gibson
  • Country star Clint Black played a "sweet-faced gambler" in this western based on a James Garner TV series
  • Mel Gibson & Jodie Foster are card-playing cons in this western based on a TV series
  • A family got mad at John McCain's use of this, their last name; their ancestors refused to brand cattle

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