throwback
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈθroʊˌbæk/
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vestigio
- You pull up old pictures and now I thought it would be fun to do kind of a Throwback Thursday makeup edition.
- a throwback to earlier times
- a throwback to the old days
- seem like a throwback
Bro, I posted a throwback the other day.
- Bro, I posted a throwback the other day.
- But they are really cool and they're a throwback to a great era in Rolex design.
- And then you have this peculiar offshoot from that kind of cephalopod, the group that nautiluses are a kind of throwback to.
- And then what you're going to do is they're going to play on a throwback.
- Marky, Mark though, man, Marky, that was a throwback.
Examples
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My big fear is that the new Highway Bill is a huge throwback to the 1950s.
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Great hunter, sort of a throwback to Daniel Boone.
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This dude right here is a throwback, you understand me?
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Next video, this one this one is a throwback of my sister and I's old video.
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It's a fantastic throwback to this van's long term predecessor.
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Here's a throwback to the past, to the youth of this city.
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He was like a throwback to another era.
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And so Quentin is a real throwback to old school Hollywood filmmaking.
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But they are really cool and they're a throwback to a great era in Rolex design.
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That vintage car is a throwback to the classic designs of the 1960s.
Synonyms
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9.8
A person or thing from a different time that seems old-fashioned
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5.0
A style that copies clothes or design from the recent past
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7.2
An object, custom, or idea from long ago that seems out of date
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8.6
An old-fashioned person or thing that is out of date
An old object that reminds people of an earlier time
A person or animal that shows traits of a much older ancestor
A return to an earlier style or idea
Antonyms
How Retro
Surface Forms
Morphology
throwback = throw (semi-transparent) = back + throw
The components 'throw' + 'back' suggest 'thrown back' or reversion, which helps infer the meaning, but the noun sense ('a person or thing showing earlier features') is a figurative extension not strictly predictable from literal parts. [Postprocessing: moved 'back' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Throwback comes from the simple parts throw and back, where 'throw back' means to send something back to an earlier time. So a throwback is a person or thing that seems sent back from the past and shows older features.