Crossword-Solution: MAVERICK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Maverick | n. | In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who neglected to brand his cattle. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MAVERICK (5)
One year a maverick yearling, strayed or overlooked by the vaqueros, kept on until the season's end, and so betrayed another visitor to the spring that else I might have missed.
Starr declines; when they come to Maverick Square he will report the man to the superintendent, who knows him well.
There’s the Menger and the Maverick, and—” “And the Fi’th Av’noo, and the Waldorf-Astoria,” mimicked McGuire.
You have changed from a maverick into a butterick.” “Don’t see exactly what you are driving at,” said William.
But Mulcahy confused the causes of things, and when a very muzzy Maverick smote a sergeant on the nose or called his commanding officer a bald-headed old lard-bladder and even worse names, he fancied that rebellion and not liquor was at the bottom of the outbreak.
Quotes with MAVERICK (3)
What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts of biology. Someone who is perhaps himself an unpretty fact of biology.
If Feingold does it, if he wins this race in this year, it will not be as just another Democratic senator. It will not be as a maverick, nor even as an idealist. It will be as a signal that maybe, just maybe, people power can still beat the money power. That senators aren't just extensions of parties and presidents, and that politics can be about something more than Democratic toothpaste versus Republican toothpaste.
Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, TIME, Universal, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).