0 a person or thing that is similar to an earlier type:
He's an unappealing throwback to the days of 80s City slickers.
In some ways the new applet technology was a throwback to the old pre-PC days.
Or they may be just a throwback to the old days when every phone number began with a real word, called an exchange.
The idea that districts should circle a group of voters who share a set of distinct interests is a historical throwback to the colonial and medieval origin.
Fisher men who abide by size limits first use casual inspection to sort their catch into keepers and throwbacks.
It is the acts of barbarity, a throwback from the past; it is the violence that we have lived with for so long.
That is a throwback to the neoclassical economics idea that macro-economics is merely micro-economics writ large.
It is a throwback to the 1960s and it deserves the support of no one.
Is not it about time that we got rid of that throwback to medieval times?
In my view, the attitude is a throwback to the era of obsessive secrecy which should be over.