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Throwback   /θrˈoʊbˌæk/   Listen
Throwback

adjective
1.
Characteristic of an atavist.  Synonym: atavistic.





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"Throwback" Quotes from Famous Books



... least a twelvemonth later, as Lilly was rushing down from the children's department of one of Broadway's gigantic cut-rate department stores, she stopped so abruptly that she created a little throwback in the ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
... throwback from their weakness, their bitterness, and the suppression of their vitality. But above all it was an indication of the storms brewing all around them. Theorists are like meteorologists: they state in scientific terms not what the weather will be, but what the weather is. They are weathercocks pointing ...
— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland


Words linked to "Throwback" :   recurrence, regressive, atavistic, being, atavist, atavism, return, reversion, organism


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