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Throwback
/θrˈoʊbˌæk/
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noun
throwback
n.
1.
The reappearance in an organism of characteristics of an earlier ancestral type; atavism.
2.
An organisms having characteristics of an earlier ancestral type.
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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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"Throwback" Quotes from Famous Books
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It's a
throwback
to a weaker strain That's washed by the Tropic tide. And a mixture of Dago and Japanese Latin and Jew and Portugese Crops out thru
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— Rhymes of a Roughneck • Pat O'Cotter
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