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caveman. Fred Flintstone didn’t inspire this term for a man, sometimes crude and brutal, but often attractive, who has a rough primitive manner, especially toward women. The word, used in this sense, comes from the title of John Corbin’s The Cave Man (1907), a romantic novel that was a best-seller in its day. Outside of U.S. slang, caveman means a cave dweller of the Stone Age, the word used in that sense since about 1860. |