throwback

Definitions

throw + back = something 'thrown back' into the past. In biology it is nature throwing the type back an era — an organism showing an ancestor's trait (a genetic throwback). In everyday use it is a person, style or thing that feels pleasantly out of its time, as if tossed back from an earlier decade.

Common Collocations

• 1.a throwback to令人想起……的事物
• 2.genetic throwback遗传返祖现象
• 3.throwback Thursday（社交媒体）复古星期四

Example Sentences

• 1.

  That diner is a throwback to the 1950s, jukebox and all.

• 2.

  His polite manners feel like a throwback to an earlier era.

• 3.

  The white tiger is a rare genetic throwback.