The Collaborative International Dictionary
Throw back \Throw back\, v. i.
to revert to an ancestral type or character. ``A large
proportion of the steerage passengers throw back to their
Darwinian ancestry.''
--The Century.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) to throw something back (such as a fish that has been caught for sport) 2 (context transitive English) to hinder the development of something 3 (context intransitive English) to revert to an earlier stage of development
WordNet
v. throw back with a quick, light motion; "She tossed back her head" [syn: toss back]
Usage examples of "throw back".
Von Braun, Stuhlinger, Kolff, Unger hammered at him, driving home their conviction that within the next decades someone would command space, and the military advantage derived therefrom, and the ability to predict weather, and the possibility of stationing a device of some kind to throw back radio signals to any spot on Earth.
I swallowed my anger, the words I wanted to throw back at him, the spell I wanted to use to blast him out of my way, and spoke gently.
Barrois took away the waiter, and hardly was he outside the door, which in his haste he forgot to shut, than they saw him throw back his head and empty to the very dregs the glass which Valentine had filled.
Sometimes it would throw back its head a little, and again with suddenly raised eyebrows re-examine and finally taste the food.
Half clodhopper, half board-school prig, they can still throw back to a nobler stock, and breed yeomen.