1
: a cave dweller especially of the Stone Age
2
: a man who acts in a rough or crude manner
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married a caveman who spends all his free time swigging beer and watching sports on TV
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That is now as pathetic to me as a fetid caveman’s toolmaking would be to a great thinker like da Vinci or even Edgar Allen Poe.
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Graham Techler, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
This environment in some ways is a dream come true for our caveman ancestors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2017
Pitino’s team survived all season in caveman fashion — hostile defense, bruising physicality and rip-it-off-the-rim offensive rebounding.
—Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
Even cavemen, in ancient, simpler times, could not merely sit around in cave admiring/praising one another, but had to hunt, fight, compete with members of own group for status.
—George Saunders, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
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Graham Techler, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
This environment in some ways is a dream come true for our caveman ancestors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2017
Pitino’s team survived all season in caveman fashion — hostile defense, bruising physicality and rip-it-off-the-rim offensive rebounding.
—Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
Even cavemen, in ancient, simpler times, could not merely sit around in cave admiring/praising one another, but had to hunt, fight, compete with members of own group for status.
—George Saunders, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Caveman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caveman. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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caveman
noun
cave·man
ˈkāv-ˌman 
: a person living in a cave especially during the Stone Age
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