Usually means: Prohibited or forbidden by tradition.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word tabu:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. tabu: Merriam-Webster
  2. tabu: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tabu: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tabu: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tabu: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tabu, tabu: Wordnik
  7. tabu: Wiktionary
  8. tabu: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tabu: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tabu: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tabu: Dictionary.com
  12. Tabu (actress), Tabu: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Tabu: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. tabu: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. tabu: Rhymezone
  16. Tabu (nt), Tabu, tab, tab: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. tabu: FreeDictionary.org
  18. tabu: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. tabu: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tabu: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tabu: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tabu: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Tabu: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. tabu: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TABU: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TaBu: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tabuing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tabu)

noun:  Alternative spelling of taboo [An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.]
verb:  Alternative spelling of taboo [To mark as taboo.]

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