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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
caveman
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And what about the caveman that invented fire?
▪ Consider the following scenario: a caveman leaves his cave one day setting out in order to hunt for food.
▪ Exhibit A in defense of the caveman.
▪ He understood what had driven the cavemen, and the barbarian, because the same passion was driving him.
▪ World middleweight champions Mickey Walker and Joey Giardello both came from solid middle-class homes, but fought like cavemen in the ring.
Wiktionary
caveman

n. 1 An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves. 2 (context informal figuratively pejorative English) A brutish or savage person. 3 (context informal figuratively pejorative English) A man with old fashioned or backward opinions, particularly with regard to women.

WordNet
caveman

n. someone who dwells in a cave [syn: cave man, cave dweller, troglodyte]

Wikipedia
CAVEman

CAVEman is a 4D high-resolution model of a functioning human elaborated by University of Calgary. It resides in a cube-shaped virtual reality room, like a cave, also known as the "research holodeck", in which the human model floats in space, projected from three walls and the floor below.

Caveman (film)

Caveman is a 1981 American slapstick comedy film written and directed by Carl Gottlieb and starring Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long and Barbara Bach. The film has also gained a cult following.

Caveman (group)

Caveman was a British hip hop group originally from High Wycombe, England, consisting of MCM, the Principal, and Diamond J. They were the first British hip hop group to be signed to a major U.S. record label, Profile Records, and quickly established themselves as one of the UK's more popular and versatile acts.

Caveman (disambiguation)

A caveman is a popular stylized characterization of how early humans or hominids looked and behaved. A cave dweller is a real human being who lives in a cave or under a cliff.

Caveman and/or cavemen can also describe the following.

CAVEman (image)

CAVEman is a movable " 4D" image of the human body created by the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine to help with the study of the genetics of diseases.

Caveman (skateboarding)

Caveman is a skateboarding trick done by jumping onto one's board into (usually) a grind or board slide.

Caveman is also used as a verb to describe attempting a trick from midway, usually by setting the board in position with one's hands, then jumping on the board. For instance, a board slide or grind move may be done by placing the skateboard on the obstacle, then jumping onto the board, rather than riding the board to the obstacle and mounting it. In this latter sense, trying a trick caveman is often helpful for skateboarders to learn new techniques or methods, and often reduces the risk of injury.

Caveman (American band)

Caveman is an American band based in Brooklyn, New York. The band recorded their first studio album in 2011. Although originally self-released, the album was re-released by Fat Possum Records in 2012. Caveman performed at SXSW 2013 and Sasquatch Festival 2013. The band's musical style is a mixture of indie rock and indie pop. Caveman also performed at the latest Bonnaroo 2014 Arts and Music Festival.

The video for the song "In the City" features actress Julia Stiles.

Usage examples of "caveman".

Angels, as they become businessmen, try desperately to shed the caveman image that outlaw motorcycle gangs thrive on.

There was a terrible irony that with all the tech of the new frontier around them, humans should be reduced to raw cavemen, muscle against muscle.

When the psychic shaman of the cavemen came on, they both started laughing.

He walked like what one of those squatty-legged cavemen in the Twombly Town Museum must have walked like before he turned into a fossil.

It was the noise that woke Garth, his brain registering it as alien and therefore potentially dangerous even through the agonizing pounding of the headache that felt like two cavemen bludgeoning one another with stone clubs inside his skull.

These are inbred remnants of the true cavemen, the ones who gave rise to all the legends of under-earth dwellers and fierce, misshapen trolls who steal babies.

Many thousands of years ago, cavemen had stumbled across the secret and cherished it, dragging great stones two hundred and fifty miles across wild country to mark the place.

He cut off her wrist thongs and carried her down the ladder where the Druid priests, who had by now scattered the cavemen, stood solemnly waiting.

Behind, others were reprimanding the cavemen for what they had tried to do.

There are cavemen, and neander men, treemen and sandmen, and many other kinds of men not often encountered but as comfortable in this world as you or I.

It got him tons of publicity, reinforced his caveman image, and made him wildly popular among farmers, westerners, and anyone else who made money from animals.

No reliable premonition of the past, of the races which migrated back and forth through obscurity, the anonymous cavemen whose countless lives the desert has expunged.

Might there have been a group of old loyal cavemen who have fallen out with Gorlot and were suspicious of your collapse?

Having labeled us as intolerant cavemen, their solution has been to sell multiculturalism as a good, even a preferred social construct to nationalism.

What is a definite historical fact is that early English cavemen played a form of darts.