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maverick

  1. epäsovinnainen, epätavanomainen, rajojaylittävä, omalaatuinen, vasikka, merkitsemätön vasikka, merkitsemätön eläin, nonkonformisti, vastaanhangoittelija, toisinajattelija, yksinäinen susi, kapinallinen.

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merkitsemätön eläin, merkitsemätön vasikka

rajojaylittävä

yksinäinen susi Showing independence in thoughts or actions.

He made a maverick decision.

He is a maverick person.

An unbranded range animal.
Around 1900, O Henry, s:A Call Loan|A Call Loan
Long Bill was a graduate of the camp and trail. Luck and thrift, a cool head, and a telescopic eye for mavericks had raised him from cowboy to be a cowman.
One who does not abide by rules.
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.)

puhekieltä A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold ’em
a person in the military who became an officer by going to college while on active duty as an enlisted person.
puhekieltä To take an unbranded range animal.

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maverick rimmaa näiden kanssa:

slapstick, joystick

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