Something old made new again, often an item or behavior that brings to mind fondly a time gone by; something old and cool brought back in style with a modern twist.
by SoCalSinger January 17, 2017
Get the RetroFresh mug.A threat made by someone who has already been doing what they are treatening to do, but wants to make you think it's a new threat.
Person 1: If you don't work with me and help me out right now, I'm not going to ever help you again!
Person 2: (sarcastic voice) Woah! Is that a retroactive threat?!?! You haven't helped me out the last 6 times I've asked you. You're so lame.
Person 2: (sarcastic voice) Woah! Is that a retroactive threat?!?! You haven't helped me out the last 6 times I've asked you. You're so lame.
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Man, I drank like thirteen beers last night and had seventeen bagel bites. I need to do a major retroactive workout today to burn off all those calories.
by proboscidae0hey May 15, 2010
Get the retroactive workout mug.Someone who is a fan of "retro" things. A "RetroFan", is also someone who is usually the head of a group of people, or a "host". Also, someone who is awesome, amazing, and usually smarter than most of his/her peers.
"Hey, I played a round of Epigenesis with RetroFan today."
"Really? I played with him for 2 days on DOOM, so Grandmas on my land."
"Wow, lucky!"
"Really? I played with him for 2 days on DOOM, so Grandmas on my land."
"Wow, lucky!"
by asdfhsdgjfdsjfdkdfj February 3, 2014
Get the retrofan mug.Retro-innovation. Innovation that happens when people resist change or when they go back to a state before the change was brought in. Remember, standard definitions of innovation is built around change and consider resistance to change anti-innovative.
People are increasingly going back to the good old days. Retrovation is evident in many new products that we use. Organic, fertilizer free farming is popular again. At the very least, we apply retro-filters on our digital images when we cannot get back to the real bygones. Retrovert has actually become a personality type, just like introvert and extrovert.
by BabuGeorge April 30, 2015
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for our purposes here, a metrosexual is a heterosexual male who is stylish, fashionable, trendy, well-groomed, and cultured. to be metrosexual, you are not required to be involved in art beyond a general awareness which would allow you to converse semi-intelligently about art while you wait in line at starbucks. artsy-fartsy describes a person that is so into art that they are weird and almost nerdy and maybe vegan and probably wearing at least one very colorful article of clothing which they made themselves. they try too hard to be an artistic genius, which ends up making them extremely difficult to comprehend.
obviously, the metrofartsy person contains some, but not all, of the combined characteristics of the metrosexual and the artsy-fartsy. the metrofartsy person is usually confused about their own identity and "their place in this world". as a result, they can't decide which subculture they should try to fit in with, so they mix two of them together.
for our purposes here, a metrosexual is a heterosexual male who is stylish, fashionable, trendy, well-groomed, and cultured. to be metrosexual, you are not required to be involved in art beyond a general awareness which would allow you to converse semi-intelligently about art while you wait in line at starbucks. artsy-fartsy describes a person that is so into art that they are weird and almost nerdy and maybe vegan and probably wearing at least one very colorful article of clothing which they made themselves. they try too hard to be an artistic genius, which ends up making them extremely difficult to comprehend.
obviously, the metrofartsy person contains some, but not all, of the combined characteristics of the metrosexual and the artsy-fartsy. the metrofartsy person is usually confused about their own identity and "their place in this world". as a result, they can't decide which subculture they should try to fit in with, so they mix two of them together.
"Yesterday, Shawn and I were uptown, shopping for shoes, and all of a sudden he invited me to some poetry reading that he's doing in a bookstore by the beach."
"Yeah? Weird. He has been acting really metrofartsy lately.
"Yeah? Weird. He has been acting really metrofartsy lately.
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