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cave dweller

noun

a person whose home is a cave.
a prehistoric person who lived in caves.
Facetious. a person who lives in an apartment building or the like in a large city.

First recorded in 1860–65

Our American cave dweller will discover that no narrow road lies before him but a fate sealed in concrete.

Protection from the cold was also sought in caverns and rock shelters, and for a very long period man remained a cave-dweller.

Here, actually to-day, was a man who truly thought that he knew a thing or two more than the cave-dweller!

In the cave dweller's time, combatants used a stone hatchet which was the best weapon that science could produce.

Great earthen jars, modeled with all the severity of the primitive cave-dweller, serve as receptacles.

But the cave-dweller of to-day shows no suggestion of such skill.

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