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taboo
tabu
noun taboos, tabus
- 1. Anything which is forbidden or disapproved of for religious reasons or by social custom.
2. Any system which forbids certain actions as being unclean or holy.
- 1. Forbidden or prohibited as being a taboo.
- Thesaurus: forbidden, proscribed, prohibited, banned, out of bounds, illegal, restricted; immoral, indecent, pornographic, vile.
- taboos, tabooed, tabooing, tabus, tabued, tabuing
1. To forbid (a custom, or the use of a word, etc) as a taboo.
