throwback
IPA: θrˈoʊbæk
noun
- A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
- (derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
- An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
- An atavism.
- A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
- (slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.
- (US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
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Examples of "throwback" in Sentences
- It was never called the Throwback.
- They were a throwback to the Stones.
- I find you're a throwback to the days of 1848.
- The 1980s were a musical throwback to the 1960s.
- It sounds like a throwback to the plantation era.
- Also, the pants striping on the throwback is much thicker.
- My tolerance does not extend to the intolerant throwbacks.
- This season was something of a throwback to the 19th Century.
- It's really a throwback to all of our roots and the Motown sound.
- This film was a throwback to the Grindhouse exploitative cinema of the past.
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