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throwback

throwback (plural throwbacks)

1. a reversion to an earlier stage of development
   • 1986, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address - 17 May 1986:

     You see, the House of Representatives recently passed a military budget that is wholly inadequate, a throwback to the seventies, a budget that is a breach of faith with our Armed Forces and our allies and would send exactly the wrong signal to the Soviets and their satellites.

2. an organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form
3. atavism
   • 1901, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 13:

     ""But this is marvellous. It might be his portrait.""

     ""Yes, it is an interesting instance of a throwback, which appears to be both physical and spiritual. A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the doctrine of reincarnation. The fellow is a Baskerville—that is evident.""

4. a person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed

Definizione dizionario throwback

Altri significati:

a person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed

atavism

a reversion to an earlier stage of development

an organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form