throwback vs tradition

throwback

noun
  • An atavism. 

  • A reversion to an earlier stage of development. 

  • 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 person or thing that evokes memories. 

  • 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. 

tradition

noun
  • A commonly held system. 

  • The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. 

  • An established or distinctive style or method 

  • A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays. 

How often have the words throwback and tradition occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )