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  • noun A prehistoric man resembling an ape.

Etymologies

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ape +‎ man

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Examples

  • The show features great pieces on the Patterson Bigfoot film and other obviously fake "apeman" footage, various Nessie clips, "Pleiadian contactee" Billy Meier and his never ending world of flying saucer films and photos, Ray Santilli's legendary Roswell alien autopsy which was the basis for a superb 2006 movie starring Ant & Dec and more.

    Archive 2010-02-01 X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut 2010

  • Hawkes argues that when our apeman ancestors were evolving in Africa, females normally died at child-bearing age.

    Grandparents were key to prehistoric man's survival 2011

  • I bet he went to school once and everything, maybe even learned spelling and grammar, but now there's nothing left but a gibbering apeman, hooting for his party.

    Is the lunatic fringe hijacking America? 2010

  • Mysterious Orang Pendek apeman spotted by British expedition - Telegraph: The team of four British explorers and their Indonesian guide tracked through dense and treacherous jungle in the Kerinci National Park of Sumatra where two of them caught a glimpse of the Orang Pendek - or short man.

    Archive 2009-09-27 Bill Crider 2009

  • Mysterious Orang Pendek apeman spotted by British expedition - Telegraph: The team of four British explorers and their Indonesian guide tracked through dense and treacherous jungle in the Kerinci National Park of Sumatra where two of them caught a glimpse of the Orang Pendek - or short man.

    Here's the Plot of Your Next Lost Race Novel Bill Crider 2009

  • Yes, it's a movie about an apeman and a girl with hair all over her body.

    Human Nature Ed Howard 2008

  • This apeman soon becomes Nathan's test subject in a series of experiments intended to instill civilization into a wild creature.

    Human Nature Ed Howard 2008

  • This apeman soon becomes Nathan's test subject in a series of experiments intended to instill civilization into a wild creature.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • Likewise, the Tarzan-like sequences of Lila and the apeman, dubbed "Puff," swinging through the trees in pursuit of one another against a patently artificial rear projection backdrop whose retro obviousness is a throwback to classic Hollywood aesthetics.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • Likewise, the Tarzan-like sequences of Lila and the apeman, dubbed "Puff," swinging through the trees in pursuit of one another against a patently artificial rear projection backdrop whose retro obviousness is a throwback to classic Hollywood aesthetics.

    Human Nature Ed Howard 2008

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