cavemen

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  1. noun A prehistoric or primitive human living in caves.
  2. noun Informal A man who is crude or brutal, especially toward women.

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  • Fire was discovered by cavemen, but modern man has largely forgotten how to create it. —  Kansan.com stories
  • Man make fire: You can make a fire almost like the cavemen did with string, wood, twigs and branches. —  Kansan.com stories
  • You just can not walk into an arab country who have been living like cavemen, and all of a sudden expect them to be like us, our rules. ya right. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • To bash each other over the head with legalistic bludgeons is to act like cavemen, and it leads down the road to social chaos far more directly than it does toward social utopia.
  • It involves following around little cavemen-like people and collecting puzzle pieces to fit into totem poles, which can prove quite tricky. —  Web User: Seen This
 

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