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Caveman
//ˈkeɪvˌmæn// noun, slang
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Noun
- 1 An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.
"The political cartoon showed the politician as a caveman, clubbing the budget depicted as a mammoth."
- 2 a man who lives in a cave wordnet
- 3 A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests. derogatory, figuratively, informal
"You think your Caveman is always chasing you for sex. Well, he is."
- 4 A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.; A brutish person, one who behaves in a rough, uncivilized way. derogatory, figuratively, informal
"The football squad was made up of cavemen who were responsible for trashing many a locker room."
- 5 A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.; Someone, especially a man, who has regressive, old-fashioned attitudes, particularly with regard to women; someone opposed to change or modernity. derogatory, figuratively, informal
"Old Sven is a bit of a caveman; he figures giving women the right to vote was a bad idea."
Etymology
From cave + man, based on the supposition that early humans dwelt in caves.
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