throwback

noun
UK /ˈθrəʊ.bæk/
US /ˈθroʊ.bæk/

A throwback is something old that comes back again.

Her new song is a throwback to the music of the 1980s.


OTHER MEANINGS

2. A person or thing that resembles an ancestor or an earlier type.

He is a throwback to the great jazz pianists of the past.

3. An act of throwing something back, such as a fish returned to the water.

The angler made a quick throwback of the small trout.

4. A backward or reverse movement, especially in a mechanism.

The machine's throwback lever resets the printing head.