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"ref": "2010, Terence A. Shimp, Advertising, Promotion, and Other Aspects of Integrated Marketing Communications, 8th edition, Cengage Learning, page 154",
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"text": "The football squad was made up of cavemen who were responsible for trashing many a locker room."
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"text": "Bless you, he would think nothing of throwing you downstairs if you have a disagreement. He is a primitive cave-man in a lounge suit. I can see him with a club in one hand and a jagged bit of flint in the other.",
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"text": "Old Sven is a bit of a caveman; he figures giving women the right to vote was a bad idea."
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"(informal, figuratively, derogatory) A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.",
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"ref": "2008, David E. Clarke, Cinderella Meets the Caveman: Stop the Boredom in Your Marriage and Jump, page 159",
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"ref": "2010, Terence A. Shimp, Advertising, Promotion, and Other Aspects of Integrated Marketing Communications, 8th edition, Cengage Learning, page 154",
"text": "And who could forget those ads that featured sophisticated cavemen who were insulted—in a parody on political correctness—by “insensitive” offenders who implied that some action was “so easy, a caveman could do it.”",
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"ref": "2010, Allen A. Debus, Prehistoric Monsters: The Real and Imagined Creatures of the Past That We Love to Fear, page 87",
"text": "For, in essence, the caveman concept implies the abhorrent—undignified human bestiality and a disquieting association with apelike ancestors. Cavemen have represented Darwin′s repugnant evolutionary ideals and even suggest civilisation′s tenuousness.",
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"text": "The football squad was made up of cavemen who were responsible for trashing many a locker room."
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"ref": "1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed",
"text": "Bless you, he would think nothing of throwing you downstairs if you have a disagreement. He is a primitive cave-man in a lounge suit. I can see him with a club in one hand and a jagged bit of flint in the other.",
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"text": "Old Sven is a bit of a caveman; he figures giving women the right to vote was a bad idea."
},
{
"text": "Pat is a real caveman when it comes to tech, and refuses to get a smartphone."
}
],
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"(informal, figuratively, derogatory) A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.",
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"ref": "2008, David E. Clarke, Cinderella Meets the Caveman: Stop the Boredom in Your Marriage and Jump, page 159",
"text": "You think your Caveman is always chasing you for sex. Well, he is.",
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "hominid"
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{
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "hominin"
},
{
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "Neanderthal"
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{
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "troglodyte"
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{
"sense": "brutish or savage person",
"word": "boor"
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{
"sense": "brutish or savage person",
"word": "knuckle dragger"
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{
"sense": "brutish or savage person",
"word": "lout"
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{
"sense": "brutish or savage person",
"word": "Neanderthal"
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{
"sense": "brutish or savage person",
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{
"sense": "brutish or savage person",
"word": "thug"
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{
"sense": "brutish or savage person",
"word": "troglodyte"
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{
"sense": "person with regressive opinions",
"word": "male chauvinist"
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{
"sense": "person with regressive opinions",
"word": "Neanderthal"
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "njeri i shpellave"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "rajul kahf",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "رَجُل كَهْف"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "kʿaranjavabnak",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "քարանձավաբնակ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "anjavabnak",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "անձավաբնակ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "peštéren čovék",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пеще́рен чове́к"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "cavernícola"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xuéjūrén",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "穴居人"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jeskynní muž"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "huleboer"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "hulemenneske"
},
{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "holbewoner"
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{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hellisbúgvi"
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{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "holubúgvi"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "luolamies"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "homme des cavernes"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "cavernícola"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Höhlenmensch"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "spilaiánthropos",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "σπηλαιάνθρωπος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "trōglodútēs",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "τρωγλοδύτης"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "איש מערות"
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "hellisbúi"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "cavernicolo"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "穴居人"
},
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"code": "ko",
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"roman": "donggul geoju'in",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "동굴 거주인"
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
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{
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
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"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
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{
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "hulemenneske"
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"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "holemenneske"
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
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{
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
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"word": "cavernícola"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "homem das cavernas"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "peščérnyj čelovék",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пеще́рный челове́к"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "troglodít",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "троглоди́т"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
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"word": "пећинар"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
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"word": "пећинарка"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pećinar"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
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"word": "pećinarka"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "cavernícola"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
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],
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},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
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{
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"word": "cavernario"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
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"word": "hombre prehistórico"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "early humans or related species",
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"word": "grottmänniska"
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{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
"word": "mağara adamı"
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"sense": "early humans or related species",
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