Throwback

Quick meaning: Throwback is a noun meaning A reversion to an earlier stage of development.

Meaning

A reversion to an earlier stage of development.

More Meanings

1. (derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
2. An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
3. An atavism.
4. A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
5. (US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
6. (slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.

Example Sentences

It’s tempting to dismiss the 15-person outfit as out of touch. But Mayer may be onto something with Sunshine, and that’s nostalgia. Throwback tech is all the rage these days.

Under the throwback rule, sales into a state where the taxpayer is not taxable are “thrown back” from the destination state to the origin state by adding the nontaxable sales to the numerator in the apportionment factor.

The man from the future where technology makes all things possible is a throwback to our glorious industrial past, before America stagnated and stopped producing anything but rules, restrictions, limits, obstacles and Facebook.

My next train is a throwback to earlier times. TfW is now the only operator of the old single-car Class 153s (apart from a handful of ScotRail bike-carrying conversions), and a pair of them have turned up to take me to Carmarthen.

Word Forms

• throwbacks

Synonyms for throwback

Depending on context, synonyms include reversion, atavism, atavistic, atavist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include regressive, reversion, atavism, atavistic, atavist, regression.

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