throwback
pronunciation
How to pronounce throwback in British English:
UK [ˈθrəʊbæk]
How to pronounce throwback in American English:
US [ˈθroʊbæk]
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- Noun:
- an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
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- Adjective:
- characteristic of an atavist
Word Origin
- throwback (n.)
- also throw-back, "reversion to an ancestral type or character," 1888, from throw (v.) + back (adv.); earlier it meant "a reverse in a course or progress, a relapse" (1856).
Example
- 1. But it 's also a throwback to earlier .
- 2. A throwback to some great original designs in a contemporary golf shoe .
- 3. Being a sort of throwback to the victorian age , she would not go against her old .
- 4. I began wondering whether cancer might be an evolutionary throwback to the dawn of multicellular life when single cells began cooperating and forming rudimentary aggregations .
- 5. For them , it all looked annoyingly familiar , like a throwback to the years of president george w.