badge vs throwback

badge

noun
  • Something characteristic; a mark; a token. 

  • A police officer. 

  • A small overlay on an icon that shows additional information about that item, such as the number of new alerts or messages. 

  • A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. 

  • A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization. 

  • A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information. 

  • A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area. 

  • A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have no right to armorial bearings. 

  • An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement. 

verb
  • To show a badge to. 

  • To mark or distinguish with a badge. 

  • To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge. 

throwback

noun
  • A person or thing that evokes memories. 

  • A reversion to an earlier stage of development. 

  • An atavism. 

  • An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form. 

  • Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout 

  • A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient. 

  • A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction. 

  • A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed. 

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