FluentPlex

throwback

/ˈθɹoʊ.bæk/ noun B2
  1. A reversion to an earlier stage of development. (countable, uncountable)
  2. A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient. (countable, uncountable)
  3. An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form. (countable, uncountable)
  4. An atavism. (countable, uncountable)
  5. A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed. (countable, uncountable)
  6. A person or thing that evokes memories. (countable, slang, uncountable)
  7. A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction. (US, countable, uncountable)

Plural throwbacks

+ Save to review

From the library

“Yes, it is an interesting instance of a throwback, which appears to be both physical and spiritual.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 179 · C1

Learn throwback in real texts

With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.

Create free account
Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.