In Top Gun, what is the meaning of Tom Cruise's nickname : Maverick?
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he wasn't a team player, didn't follow orders, and when half cocked on his own, everything that navy aviators are NOT supposed to be,.
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Justl like that line in "Top Gun": "Your ego is writing checks your body can't cash!"
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Ivan Danko (Schwarzenegger) uses a gun called "Podbyrin 9.2 mm". Its actually a modified western Desert Eagle Magnum. The Podbyrin does not exist. Its a made up prop for the movie.
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I'm dating myself, but here goes: " 'Have Gun Will Travel'  reads the card of a man. A knight without armor in a savage land. His fast gun for hire heeds the calling wind. A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin. Paladin, Paladin where do you roam?"\nHis first name was never spoken on the show, but we all knew what it was, because it was on his card.
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Son of a gun \nMeaning\n\nA rogue or scamp - "you are naughty, you old son of a gun". Also used, although this is uncommon outside the USA, as a euphemism for 'son of a bitch'. Some say that the origin is 'son of a military man'. This explanation is disputed (see below) but, correct or not, the phrase is no longer used to convey that meaning. \n\nOrigin\n\nThere is dispute amongst etymologists about the origin of this phrase. As always, disputes only occur where there is no definitive evidence so, as you might guess, there is conflicting circumstantial evidence. I'll put the sources here and let you decide for yourself.\n\nThe two points of view are primarily these:\n\nThe phrase originated as 'son of a military man' (i.e. a gun). The most commonly repeated version in this strand is that the British Navy used to allow women to live on naval ships. Any child born on board who had uncertain paternity would be listed in the ship's log as 'son of a gun'. While it is attestable fact that, although the Royal navy had rules against it, they did turn a blind eye to women (wives or prostitutes) joining sailors on voyages, so this version has plausibility on its side. The sources for this point of view are:\n\n- The Royal Navy Museum, who confirm that women sometimes travelled on their vessels during the age of sail.\n\n- The Sailor's Workbook; William Henry Smyth, 1867. [son of a gun is] "An epithet conveying contempt in a slight degree, and originally applied to boys born afloat, when women were permitted to accompany their husbands at sea; one admiral declared he literally was thus cradled, under the breast of a gun-carriage”. \n\n- Fighting Words, Christine Ammer, 1999- "A baby conceived during wartime. In World War I the term denoted the illegitimate offspring of servicemen."\n\n- Jon Bee, a Dictionary of the Turf, 1823, ... means 'a soldier's bastard'. \n\nThe first known printed source is The British Apollo No. 43, 1708 - "You'r a Son of a Gun". That source doesn't mention the military and Smyth's version comes 150 years later, but he was himself a Royal Navy admiral and in a better position than most to know what went on aboard naval ships. Whether or not the military/naval version is the origin it is clear that, in 1823 at least, the term was used with that meaning. \n\nCounter to that you might think it unusual that military men didn't appear to have daughters, or you may just put that down to the prevailing sexism of the time. There are several phrases including the word son, some of them quite recent: \n\nEvery mother's son \nGo on my son \nLike father, like son \nMy son the doctor \nNumber one son \nOn me 'ead, son \n\nwhereas it's difficult to think of anything other than 'don't put your daughter on the stage' for daughters. \n\n\nThe term is euphemisitic and derived as a conveniently rhyming alternative to 'son of a bitch/whore'. That term has been part of the language for centuries, certainly long enough for people to some up with a euphemism for it. Shakespeare used something like it in King Lear (1605) - "One that art nothing but the composition of a Knave, Begger, Coward, Pandar, and the Sonne and Heire of a Mungrill Bitch." \n\nAlso, other sources in print in the 19th century point to the meaning at least of the phrase as indicating contempt: \n\nBarnam Ingol. Legends, Cynotaph, 1840, "We heard the rough voice of a son of a gun Of a watchman, ‘One o'clock!’ bawling."
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Billy Gunn, Bad Ass Billy Gunn, Mr. Ass, he had a few more I just can't remember what they were. One of them was when he was beat by Steven Richards and could no longer use the word ass in his name.
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Bullseye. Because he doesn't ahve any real power, he just has really good aim.
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No -- it refers to a person going crazy and randomly shooting people. It refers specifically to that incident with Mr. Whitman (who was found to have a brain tumor by the way).\n\nIf someone says "I wanted to make sure you're not gonna start firing shots from the clocktower" they are specifically alluding to that event in history.
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eaastern- Heat in 7\nwestern- maverick in 7\n\nfinal- maverick in 7
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"Ace" is a capital name for a paintballer. After all, a pilot with the most kills is called an ace. Ace is the nickname for any topnotch individual in his field. Sure, Ace, be an ace paintballer and live up to the name.
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It says NRA4EVER\n\nThey asked it as a quiz question in the episode named "The Simpson's 138th Episode Spectacular"\n\nBUT I just went to search for something to back me up and I found this. I'm not sure how true it is, but have a read anyway! http://www.moviemistakes.com/tv3501/trivia
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it appears to be a slang terms for "pulling your gun out of a holster and shooting someone" - so it wouldn't apply to the vice president, he had his shotgun out before he shot\n\nbut it also seems to me "hot tempered woman" and stuff like that.
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his location. matador is the name the spanish or mexicans would give him. but in english the name is altered to toreador (el torero). torero is the spanish name for bullfighter, matador means 'killer'.
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Cocktail starring Tom Cruise sounds appropriate
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kevin bacon, tom cruise, a few good men\ntom cruise, kelly mcgillis, top gun\nkelly mcgillis, harrison ford, witness
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vato (noun)\n\n(slang) A Chicano slang term for Mexican or Latino youth. It may be used with intimate friends or as a derogatory reference. The English equivalent would be "man", "guy" or "dude." \n\nThere are gang connotations with the use of this term, Vato Loco is used to describe a "crazy dude", "gangster" or "gangbanger." \n\nvata is the feminine form of the word. \n\n\nSource\n\nhttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Vato\n\nPS. according to my Latino buds, I am a vato loco. They mean I'm a crazy dude (in a good way, they are my buds!)\n\nPPS.  In American slang, "dude" can be a friendly or derogatory term.  In the 70's, it was always "dude, this" and "dude, that."  Note also "The Dude" in the Coen Bros Flick The Big Lebowski (The Dude abides...)  On the other hand, if you call a cowboy "dude" he'll probably smash your mouth. (Yes, there still are cowboys.  If you want to really piss one off, call him a goat-roper.)
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My definition: Any guy. \nHowever, I think that originally it referred to business men who went on a cattle drive to get away from it all. (Remember City Slickers?)\n\nCheck http://www.dictionary.com