caveman

caveman

1. A strapping, often hirsute, man. Get one of those cavemen from the gym to help you move all this furniture!
2. A pejorative term for a man who lacks manners or refinement. That guy's a total caveman—he barely said hello to me and would only grunt in response to my questions.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

caveman

n. a strong, virile man. He’s sort of a caveman, big and hairy.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • man of color
  • man of few words
  • man of few words, a
  • a man of few words
  • a man/woman of few words
  • man on the make
  • greater love hath no man
  • man after my own heart
  • a man, woman, etc. after your own heart
  • a man after (one's) own heart
References in periodicals archive
The allegedly naked Texas caveman said he's lived in the canyon cave for three years, but denied allegations from local residents of bathing on the roof of a nearby apartment complex, stealing renters' clothes and using the building's laundry room.
"Many large scale developments have already made substantial initial investments into gyms but lack the expertise and the experience to make that investment work for them," says Phillip Robson, Managing Director of Caveman Fitness.
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"It's a really wonderfully observed piece of writing but it should now be much more relevant to English audiences." Defending The Caveman was written as a solo show by an American, Rob Becker, who also performed in it.
"It allows visitors to interact with the caveman story line at the individual level by making them active participants in the site.
John Hay and Peter Tabern's BBC adaptation of the classic Stig of the Dump - about a child who befriends a caveman - won in the Children and Young People category.
Sonnenfeld suggests that readers should first acquire a "superb historical overview from the caveman and antiquity to the democratic dream fulfilled today as a nightmare of universal fast food" in Flandrin and Montanan's sequence of introductory essays.
The Caveman's Valentine: Music from the Motion Picture.
BOB COSTAS' summation of the XFL: "A delightful combination of mediocre high school football and a caveman's conception of showmanship."
They rendered images of primitive figures, caveman and woman--she with hair cast over her bare breasts, a mermaid beached or a woman emerging from the primordial ooze, pulling away from an underground cavern.
Universal Focus' "The Caveman's Valentine" and Paramount Classics' "My First Mister" list 16 and 10 producers, respectively.
The cartoon shows a caveman chiseling a pair of dice.
RICHIE RAMSAY reckons "caveman golf " is the missing link he needs to get his game back on track.
The Caveman is a 25-foot fiberglass statue near the Chamber of Commerce in Grants Pass that's been part of the town's tourism campaign - playing on the Oregon Caves National Monument.
The Paleo Diet also known as the Caveman, Stone Age or Hunter Gatherers' diet is an eating plan based on what the cavemen would have eaten.