throwback
Meanings
noun
- A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
- A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
- An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
- An atavism.
- A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
- A person or thing that evokes memories.
- A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
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Etymology
Deverbal from throw back.
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