n. One who can't, or who refuses to walk the bleeding edge of technology, preferring old, reliable tools. I.e. one who shuns PDAs for notebooks, pencils and pocket calendars; would rather meet in real life than on MySpace; and who'd still shoot with cameras which require film. A Luddite.
Bill is the kind of retrobate who rides an old, carburated Harley, rather than a new, reliable, fuel-injected sport bike.
by Bill Garlinghouse March 12, 2008
Get the Retrobate mug.Verb. To modify a vehicle part of a different stature to fit another. Or Making a foreign car part fit on your car.
I retrofitted these Merecedes tail lights to fit on my BMW 3 series. Or I took these Ford taurus cupholders and rerofitted them on my Honda
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Get the Reprobate mug.The tendency of girls to take pictures with everyone at a party (regardless of whether or not they like the people in the photos), so that if something awkward or embarrassing happens with someone during the course of that party, there is usually a photo of them before that incident happened.
"Look at that picture of Michael, Ella, and Isabel"
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