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Throwback

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Noun

1. atavist, throwback

an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism

2. atavism, reversion, throwback

a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

Adjective

3. atavistic, throwback

characteristic of an atavist

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Throwback

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noun
1. 
a. 
a person, animal, or plant that has the characteristics of an earlier or more primitive type
b. 
a reversion to such an organism
2. informal
an occasion when someone is reminded of a past time
verb throw back (adverb)
3. (intransitive)
to revert to an earlier or more primitive type
4. (transitive; foll by on)
to force to depend (on)
the crisis threw her back on her faith in God

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Throwback

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noun
1.  Rare
the act of throwing back; check, stop, or reversal
2. 
reversion to an earlier or more primitive type or condition
3. 
an instance or example of this

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Throwback

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n.
1. See atavism.
2. One that has characteristics of an earlier time: a song that is a throwback to the big-band era.

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