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.
noun
1.
a person, animal, or plant that has the characteristics of an earlier or more primitive type
a reversion to such an organism
verb (adverb)
2.
(intransitive) to revert to an earlier or more primitive type
3.
(transitive) foll by on. to force to depend (on): the crisis threw her back on her faith in God
throw away
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