Definitions for throwback

throwback throw·back

Spelling: [throh-bak]
IPA: /ˈθroʊˌbæk/

Throwback is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 360 anagrams from letters in throwback (abchkortw).

Definitions for throwback

noun

  1. an act of throwing back.
  2. a setback or check.
  3. the reversion to an ancestral or earlier type or character; atavism.
  4. an example of this.

Origin of throwback

1855-60; 1915-20 for def 3; noun use of verb phrase throw back

Examples for throwback

Mr. Mix gave her a look which was a throwback to his cave-man ancestry.

This is a throwback to an earlier age when the modern state was not yet invented.

But Willie Watson is a throwback to the days of Woody Guthrie and early Bob Dylan.

Can't you see that he is a throwback, lost in this world of science and machines?

That, I thought, was racism, and a throwback for America, to simply vote for a man because of the color of his skin.

A throwback to an era ten thousand years in the past, and therefore, as the textbooks say, prone to mental instability.

Politically, Cianci is something of a throwback to a time when conservative, ethnic politics dominated urban centers.

Now, its descendent organizations are dedicated to advancing the 20th-century throwback notion of the primacy of the nation-state.

He was an anachronism in our midst, a throwback to our early forebears.

For many of the young she is seen as a throwback to a past few want to see repeated.

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