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@[email protected] Hey, I completely forgot about checking that dictionary out at the library, and not long ago I just happened to be in that town 20 minutes from home, walking past the library and It reminded me. So I just went in and found the Macquarie Dictionary 6th Edition (2013) and looked up the word. Here's the definition - There seems to be 2 definitions here:
Ha, nice! Sounds about right. Something that has "become fashionable again". Like 8-bit graphics in modern games. The prefix (hence the dash) meaning "backward" is more literal, like retrospect, which means to look back.