throwback

About 0.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
2. noun A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
3. noun An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
4. noun An atavism.
5. noun A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
6. noun A person or thing that evokes memories.
7. noun A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.

Similar words

regressive reversion atavism atavistic atavist regression regress retrogression rollback backsliding

Often followed by

to rule rules in from of year and or

Word family

throwbacks