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throwback

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Noun

  1. A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
  2. A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
  3. An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
  4. An atavism.
  5. A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
  6. A person or thing that evokes memories.
  7. A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.

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