Other forms: throwbacks
A throwback is something that seems to belong to an earlier time. A throwback to the seventies, something of a throwback, throwback attitudes.
It nearly always takes to, and it is affectionate about styles and hostile about attitudes. In biology it means an individual showing a trait its recent ancestors had lost.
1nounthrowbackSomething that seems to belong to an earlier time.
“With its vinyl records and jukebox, the café is a throwback to the 1950s.”
throwback is a thing.
Deverbal from throw back.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA