Meaning & use
Throwback
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A person, thing, or event that recalls or reverts to an earlier style, period, or ancestral trait.
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The diner's neon sign and vinyl booths are a throwback to 1950s Americana.
Geneticists study rare throwbacks in which an ancestral trait suddenly reappears after generations.
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The word originated in biology to describe an organism displaying an ancestral characteristic, before spreading into general use for anything reminiscent of an earlier era.
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