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  • noun Plural form of retro.

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Examples

  • Lars flipped on the public address system, “Firing retros and beginning descent”.

    365 tomorrows » 2008 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

  • He brought Alice completely to rest about fifty feet from the antenna, braking the pod with a gentle puff from the retros, and considered his next move.

    Tin 2010

  • Shouldn't someone be going around the country, buying these bikes ups, fixing them and then rebranding and selling them for half the price of these neo-retros?

    BSNYC Product Review: Electra Ticino 8D BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Six miles above the southern plains of Ares Valles, the retros fired.

    Who Do You Say I Am 2010

  • But I do like your idea of a retros '60s style Tomorrowland movie.

    Tomorrowland Movie Details Revealed | /Film 2009

  • Well, the Vostok test capsule had a problem with the IR sensor and thus it's retros fired rearward, pushing the capsule into a higher orbit, where it stayed until 1962.

    NASA Watch: September 2007 Archives 2007

  • Not on the surface, maybe—there was nothing about him that resembled the creepy, greasy retros my sister used to bring home, their eyes red from a late-night dozer session or wide and twitchy from too many hours locked in a virtual reality circuit, fingers grasping at imaginary demons.

    Crashed ROBIN WASSERMAN 2009

  • Well, the Vostok test capsule had a problem with the IR sensor and thus it's retros fired rearward, pushing the capsule into a higher orbit, where it stayed until 1962.

    Sputnik fragment makes for a town party - NASA Watch 2007

  • Not on the surface, maybe—there was nothing about him that resembled the creepy, greasy retros my sister used to bring home, their eyes red from a late-night dozer session or wide and twitchy from too many hours locked in a virtual reality circuit, fingers grasping at imaginary demons.

    Crashed ROBIN WASSERMAN 2009

  • Popik grinned and fired the retros, slowing our approach.

    365 tomorrows » 2007 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

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