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cage

Definition

  • noun: a box made of wire or metal bars in which people keep animals or birds
  • noun: a box or enclosure having some openwork for confining or carrying animals (as birds)
  • verb: to confine or keep in or as if in a cage
  • synonyms: aviary, mew, confine

Examples

  • Don't worry about what he said. He was just trying to 'rattle your cage'.

  • a hamster/monkey/parrot 'cage'

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Here's to you, Monsieur Gadbois. Is that your own parrot? No. It comes with the hotel. Does it? Someone let it out of its cage, and I can't get it back in. Hmm. Oh, you need another glass. I most certainly do. Swine parrot. What is it you do, (..)
    1975 The Return of the Pink Panther