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caged

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

Confined in a cage.

adjective

  1. 1

    Confined in a cage.

  2. 2

    Produced by birds confined in cages; not free-range.

    Two thirds of the class decided that free-range eggs had more taste and flavour than caged eggs and one third liked the taste of caged eggs more than free range.

  3. 3

    Resembling a cage.

    It is lighter to handle and more manoeuvrable, and its three caged sides with web straps on the fourth prevent movement of the contents.

  4. 4

    slangJailed, imprisoned, incarcerated.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of cagesimple past and past participle of cage

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).