cave dweller

noun

Facetious. a person who lives in an apartment building or the like in a large city.

Origin of cave dweller

First recorded in 1860–65

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Our American cave dweller will discover that no narrow road lies before him but a fate sealed in concrete.
Carter's Charge Is a Distraction | Stanley Crouch | September 17, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
Protection from the cold was also sought in caverns and rock shelters, and for a very long period man remained a cave-dweller.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles Morris
Here, actually to-day, was a man who truly thought that he knew a thing or two more than the cave-dweller!
Gray youth | Oliver Onions
In the cave dweller's time, combatants used a stone hatchet which was the best weapon that science could produce.
The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) | Various
Great earthen jars, modeled with all the severity of the primitive cave-dweller, serve as receptacles.
West Wind Drift | George Barr McCutcheon

But the cave-dweller of to-day shows no suggestion of such skill.
Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) | Carl Lumholtz

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