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Very much so, yes.
You can use Google Ngrams to research such questions yourself:
You can use Google Ngrams to research such questions yourself:
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I've actually looked it up in a couple of online dictionaries, but all to no avail. Except this entry from Cambridge:
a nod to something
1. If something is a nod to a particular thing, it refers to it or shows…
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