Particularly if it's said jokingly by a middle aged white man to a young white man.
2006-08-04 15:12:42 · 4 answers · asked by firefly 2 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
It means that someone is coming across as if he/she lives, looks, thinks and/or acts like they come from some time in the past. A woman with a poodle skirt would look like a "throwback to the fifties". Someone with platform shoes and a shag would look like a throwback to the seventies. An "old throwback" is another way to say the same thing. It isn't necessarily a bad thing, though, because, for example, maybe if the young white man had manners that were more like manners used to be or looked like or did some other nice thing that isn't so common these days; the older man may have been complimenting the younger one.
2006-08-04 15:20:33 · answer #1 · answered by WhiteLilac1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the reversion to an ancestral or earlier type or character; atavism. Something considered to the past of the young man. Could be hippy, caveman depending on age differece and age to be exact.
2006-08-04 22:23:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means an old-fashioned person, it's not an insult, it's someone who is either acting like or doing something liek the way they did in past generations
2006-08-04 22:21:03 · answer #3 · answered by Matt S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Hippy....old school etc.
2006-08-04 22:17:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋