throwbacknoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈθrəʊ.bæk/us/ˈθroʊ.bæk/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.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Things remaining
- (and) all the rest idiom
- balance
- bastion
- cutpiece
- deposit
- dregs
- for the rest idiom
- ground
- relic
- remainder
- remains
- remnant
- residual
- residue
- rest
- rump
- the shirt off sb's back idiom
- time capsule
- vestige
- wreckage
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