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— English words —

• throwback n. A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
• throwback n. (Derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
• throwback n. An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
• throwback n. An atavism.
• throwback n. A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
• throwback n. (Slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.
• throwback n. (US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating…
• throw␣back v. (Transitive) To hinder the development of something.
• throw␣back v. (Intransitive) To revert to an earlier stage of development.
• throw␣back v. To retort.
• throw␣back v. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, back.

— English word, defined in French —

• throw-back n. Atavisme.

60 English words from 11 English definitions

accounting already ancestor and atavism attributive avoid back characteristics considered deficient Derogatory development earlier evokes existed figuratively form has hinder idiomatically income instead Intransitive memories mentally more new nowhere nowhere␣income of␣a often organism originating or␣something other other␣than person practice primitive retort reversion revert see similar Slang something stage such taxing than that the thing throw Transitive uncivilized untaxed Used what

1 foreign word from the foreign definition

Atavisme

3 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

throwbacks Throwback␣Thursday Throwback␣Thursdays

20 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ack ACK bac BAC -bac- back Back back- row Row ROW rowback row-back row␣back Thr THR thro thro' throw WBA

6 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ABW cab Cab CAB wor Wor.

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

Backworth

One anagram found with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

throwbacks

One anagram found minus a letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Ackworth

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