First Known Use: 1913
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Piltdown man
noun Pilt·down man \ˈpilt-ˌdau̇n-\
Definition of PILTDOWN MAN
: a supposedly very early hominid erroneously reconstructed in the early 1900s from what was later determined to be human skull fragments and an orangutan lower jaw planted by a hoaxer
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Origin of PILTDOWN MAN
Piltdown, East Sussex, England
Rhymes with PILTDOWN MAN
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