Usually means: Nostalgic reference to the past.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word throwback:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. throwback: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. throwback: Merriam-Webster
  3. throwback, throwback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. throwback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. throwback: Collins English Dictionary
  6. throwback: Vocabulary.com
  7. Throwback, throwback: Wordnik
  8. throwback: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. throwback: Wiktionary
  10. throwback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. throwback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. throwback: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. throwback: Dictionary.com
  14. throwback: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. throwback: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Throwback (novel), The Throwback (unfinished film), Throwback (drink), Throwback (song), Throwback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. throwback: Rhymezone
  18. throwback: FreeDictionary.org
  19. throwback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. throwback: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Throwback: Investopedia
  2. throwback: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throwback: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. throwback: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. throwback: Medical dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See throwbacking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
noun:  (derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
noun:  An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
noun:  An atavism.
noun:  A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
noun:  (slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.
noun:  (US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.

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