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Plural of maverick

regular plural

The plural of maverick is mavericks.

Forms of maverick

Singularmaverick /ˈmævəɹɪk/
Pluralmavericks
Countablecountable

Mavericks in a sentence

  • Attempts to regulate the distribution of maverick cattle throughout the 1880s affected particularly the access of cowboys to mavericks.2016, Victoria Lamont, “Western Violence and the Limits of Sentimental Power”, in Westerns: A Women’s History, Lincoln, Neb.; London...
  • Luck and thrift, a cool head, and a telescopic eye for mavericks had raised him from cowboy to be a cowman.1907, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “A Call Loan”, in Heart of the West, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company for...
  • Not that these two mavericks of right and left weren't forced to breathe the sludgy water of stupidism through their previously pure gills.2017, Harmon Leon, Ted Rall, Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America, page 6. From the entry stupidism
  • Krautrock hadn't filtered through, and although punk was important, it was the pre-'76 mavericks and post-'78 dub experimentalists who made the biggest impression on the world of DIY.2007, Everett True, “Dance this mess around”, in Plan B Magazine Issue 20, page 51. From the entry schizoid pop

Meaning of maverick

  1. adjective Unbranded.
  2. adjective Showing independence in thoughts or actions.
  3. noun An unbranded range animal.

Full definition of maverick

Questions about the plural of maverick

What is the plural of maverick?
The plural of maverick is mavericks.
Is maverick countable?
Maverick is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maverick (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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