What is Maven?
1.
"Maven" comes to us from the Hebrew, by way of Yiddish. In Hebrew, "mavin" means "he knows". So a "maven" is someone in the know, a real expert, or maybe sometimes just a self-styled expert.
"You need to decide on a new computer? Talk to my cousin, he just graduated from CalTech, he's a real maven."
OR
"Okay, so you read one magazine article, what does that make you, a maven?"
2.
a super fly drop kickin machine! the man has no limits, except for the dropkick, cause thats what he does best, and at all. one time, i saw maven drop kick this guy, and the was totally down, until he stepped out of the way and maven fell. but he got back up, he's a total fighter/brawler, maven roxors my soxors. maven is the man/child of the wwe. ALL HAIL MAVEN and his glorious drop kick. i hear he's working on another move.... shhhh! dont tell! 'the MISSILE drop kick' whoa shit nigga, that fly busta will fuck you up!
'one time my friend kyle saw maven try to do a hiptoss. he almost did it, it was cool. and by cool, i mean totally sweet!'
3.
a dork amongst dorks; an uber dork; or, used when a dork is about to go in a diatribe about his or her passion. Refernce: the Simpsons.
At the comic books store, the guy that knows ever apearance of the Silver Sable is a total maven.
4.
Someone who has just been 'maved' and is dripping from the 'pap' The after effects of being maved.
Also see sobering up.
john - god he is maven
tracy- paps drippin out his ass
john- wait till he's sober he will regret it
tracy- shall we help him?
john- no he might mave us too
