Usually means: Return to earlier time, topic.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word hark back:

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  1. hark back: Merriam-Webster
  2. hark back: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hark back: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hark back: Vocabulary.com
  5. hark-back, hark back: Wiktionary
  6. Hark back, hark back: Dictionary.com
  7. hark back: Rhymezone
  8. Hark Back: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. hark back: FreeDictionary.org
  10. hark back: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. hark back: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. hark back: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. hark back: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (hark back)

verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  (hunting) Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
verb:  (by extension) To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.
verb:  (figuratively) To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event).
verb:  (transitive, hunting) To call back (hounds); to recall.
noun:  Alternative form of hark-back
noun:  (hunting) An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
noun:  (figuratively) An act of alluding, returning, or reverting (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, an act of evoking, or longing or pining for (a past era or event).

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