throw back

1. 1.

   throw back with a quick, light motion

   “She tossed back her head”

   Synonymstoss back

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Questions about throw back

What does throw back mean?

throw back means "throw back with a quick, light motion".

What is another word for throw back?

Close synonyms include toss back. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is throw back a common word?

throw back is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.