WordNet
n. someone who dwells in a cave [syn: caveman, cave dweller, troglodyte]
Usage examples of "cave man".
He gave me a perspective of prehistoric cave man I might not otherwise have had and a better understanding of the meaning of humanity.
By some strange freak of fate you have remained unchanged during all these ages until now you step forth from your long sleep an unspoiled cave man of the stone age into the midst of the twentieth century, while I, doubtless, have been born and reborn a thousand times, merging from one incarnation to another until in this we are again united.
She fought like a tigress, but I took my free hand and pushed her head back--I imagine that I had suddenly turned brute, that I had gone back a thousand million years, and was again a veritable cave man taking my mate by force--and then I kissed that beautiful mouth again and again.
The last vestige of centuries of civilization had fallen away, leaving him a stark cave man of the stone age.