MAVERICK

Maverick

Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, ...

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maverick

Noun

  1. An unbranded range animal.
  2. One who does not abide by rules.
  3. One who creates or uses unconventional and/or controversial ideas or practices.
    Florence Nightingale would have been perceived as a maverick during her early career, because she was prioritizing hygiene when everybody else involved in healthcare was focused on other things, such as surgery and pills. (Source: Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh, Trick or Treatment, 2008, p. 36-37.)
  4. A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold ’em

Adjective

  1. Showing independence in thoughts or actions.
    He made a maverick decision.
    He is a maverick person.


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