Retro-negotiate: To offer up new terms and conditions to a deal previously made when the outcome does not go your way.
Joe thought he would win the bet but when he lost, he tried to retro-negotiate the amount he now owed.
Sports design that experiments using classic tropes into a modern uniform.
Usually modern designs made to look from a surent time period.
Example; nhl winter classic, using throwbacks uniforms
Hockey teams playing the winter classic would use retro modernism to create their uniform for the big game.
The phrase is used ironically in a way to describe something that tries to mimic a retro theme, but in a way that's considered lazy and/or inaccurate
This can be applied to anything that fails to be retro, like an 16 bit sprite being in something that's supposed to be 8 bit for example
There's several cases of this, and of course it doesn't just apply to video games specifically
"OH MY GOD GUYS LOOK AT THIS 8 BIT PIXEL ART THAT I MADE OF MYSELF , I AM SO RETRO!!!!"
*The art in question is likely something that is made poorly and uses more colors than what an 8 bit console could handle*
Pleasuring one's self to pre-digital porn.
I came across Traci Lords today on Porn hub. Needless to say, it was quite the retro-spank.
When you BEGIN stan someone, mainly a musical group that has already split or disbanded.
The term is inspired by the word "retroactive," which means "taking effect from a date in the past."
It's not really nostalgia, because you were never really there.
So it feels like you are stanning a period in the past, and you are mentally there.
1. Since JPop was gatekept for a million years, now I'm retro-stanning King & Prince as 5/6 members in 2025.
2. Retro-stanning *insert former famous girl group or boy band* because the hype is gone now.
The phenomenon of something instantly becoming retro once it has been released.
Those are some nice glasses. But they're already retro!
Retro- to say something is old or dated.
Eg. THAT GRANDMA IS RETRO!