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  • noun A basketball player.
  • noun A person who drives an automobile, particularly for commuting.

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  • noun an athlete who plays basketball

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Examples

  • As any Hoosier can tell you, a cager is a basketball player.

    Mike Bonifer: Four Reasons Why Hoosiers Should Pass the Ball to Obama 2008

  • I have long felt that in this modern day of increased media coverage, it is nearly impossible for a collegiate cager (note - "cager" was a huge synonym for basketball player when I was a college journalist, and I discovered it at the bottom of an old water pipe that was stuffed into a box with my debate trophies … yes, I was also a master debater) to get through even one year of play unscathed.

    Sactown Royalty 2009

  • Anyway, I DO care if other cyclists run red lights because I have to answer for their asshattery every time I talk to a cager about riding a bike.

    The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Riding in Circles BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Ho! Pentheus, thou that art so cager to see what is forbidden, and to show thy zeal in an unworthy cause, come forth before the palace, let me see thee clad as a woman in frenzied Bacchante's dress, to spy upon thy own mother and her company.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • But they, not sure of the voice they heard, sprang up and peered all round; then once again his bidding came; and when the daughters of Cadmus knew it was the Bacchic god in very truth that called, swift as doves they dirted off in cager haste, his mother Agave and her sisters dear and all the Bacchanals; through torrent glen, o'er boulders huge they bounded on, inspired with madness by the god.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • And if I discover any plot amongst them, thou shalt fully hear thereof, and at the council-board shalt learn our will; but in case they be starting off in flight, with cager ear await the trumpet's call, for then I will not stay, but will this very night engage the Argive host there where their ships are hauled up.

    Rhesus 2008

  • But they, not sure of the voice they heard, sprang up and peered all round; then once again his bidding came; and when the daughters of Cadmus knew it was the Bacchic god in very truth that called, swift as doves they dirted off in cager haste, his mother Agave and her sisters dear and all the Bacchanals; through torrent glen, o'er boulders huge they bounded on, inspired with madness by the god.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • And if they did kill any of the "road kill" maybe they too will become road kill due to the random act of a cager car.

    Urban Alienation: Cultural Carnage and Alleycats BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • Ho! Pentheus, thou that art so cager to see what is forbidden, and to show thy zeal in an unworthy cause, come forth before the palace, let me see thee clad as a woman in frenzied Bacchante's dress, to spy upon thy own mother and her company.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • And if I discover any plot amongst them, thou shalt fully hear thereof, and at the council-board shalt learn our will; but in case they be starting off in flight, with cager ear await the trumpet's call, for then I will not stay, but will this very night engage the Argive host there where their ships are hauled up.

    Rhesus 2008

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  • what a motorcycle rider calls an automobile driver. They drive their own cages.

    June 9, 2009