0 a person or thing that is similar to an earlier type: --
In some ways the new applet technology was a throwback to the old pre-PC days.
He's an unappealing throwback to the days of 80s City slickers.
For instance, throwbacks to primeval types are often created.
Perhaps it is a throwback to the era of shortages during and immediately after the war.
The dispute is also a throwback in another way.
The placeman is a throwback to the 19th century.
Perhaps we were listening to a throwback to that a few moments ago.
I suppose that that is a throwback to the pensions business.
It is a throwback that should be thrown back.
In my view, the attitude is a throwback to the era of obsessive secrecy which should be over.
