throwback

1. (countable, uncountable)A reversion to an earlier stage of development.

   Rückfall, Rückwurf

   a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

2. (countable, derogatory, uncountable)A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.

3. (countable, uncountable)An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.

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

4. (countable, uncountable)An atavism.

5. (countable, uncountable)A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.

6. (attributive, countable, often, slang, uncountable)A person or thing that evokes memories.

7. (US, countable, uncountable)A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.

1. Boy, that song is really a throwback to the old days!

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2. I love a good throwback.

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3. Since it's Throwback Thursday, here's a song you might remember from the 90s.

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