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"throw back" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe any type of movement that consists of tossing something back, usually with a quick motion. For example: She quickly threw back the ball that was thrown to her.
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throw back
verb
To throw something back (such as a fish that has been caught for sport)
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Which should you throw back?
Reject derives from the Latin reicere, "to throw back".
Meanwhile we catch two small females, which we throw back.
The boy picked up something to throw back at his brother.
"Knowledge!" they cry, as they throw back shots of Fernet-Branca.
Avant-garde-friendly audience members throw back their heads exultantly upon hearing the debut.
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Let me throw back-to-back days.' It was great.
They always feel like a great throw-back to sixties dinner parties.
However, we do not have a throw-back to 1933 or even 1931.
He keeps doing these interviews saying he is this throw-back to this old-fashioned footballer.
and an unusable throw-back to a past Cold War mentality.
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